User:Inductiveload/sidenotes

Sidenotes are a bit of a mess.

Stats edit

{{sidenotes begin}}: 21787
- 505 pages set the first parameter (text width), between 16 works
{{left sidenote}}: 7730
{{right sidenote}}: 7731
{{LR sidenote}}: 678
{{RL sidenote}}: 2303
{{Outside}}: 267
{{Outside2}}: 53
{{outside L}}: 1516
- Defers to {{left sidenote}} in Page:
- Defers to {{Outside}} elsewhere
{{outside R}}: 1516
- Defers to {{right sidenote}} in Page:
- Defers to {{Outside2}} elsewhere
{{outside RL}}: 1197
- Defers to {{right sidenote}} in Page:
- Defers to {{Outside}} elsewhere
{{outside RL}}: 1197
- Defers to {{left sidenote}} in Page:
- Defers to {{Outside R}} elsewhere
{{Overfloat left}}: 1323
{{overfloat right}}: 372

This one actually works rather well, though still not great in ebooks:

No line-height/alignment in Page namespace
Do not work in some ebook readers (seem OK in Calibre and MoonReader+ in Webkit mode)
Simplify the CSS that's spread all around the place
Probably most outside templates can be replaced with sidenotes. Outside does not work well on mobile: phab:F34530320

Fixed width in Page namespace
- {{sidenotes begin}} now is flexible with page width: diff
Why is the default for {{sidenotes begin}} 11em, but MediaWiki:Gadget-Site.css hardcodes the notes to be 6em? This is wasting up to 10em of space per page.
- More flexible at least via diff and the use of templateStyles

{{sidenotes begin}} only needed in Page namespace, in Main namespace, dynamic layouts deal with it it, using CSS and JS from MediaWiki:PageNumbers.js.
{{left sidenote}} and {{right sidenote}} apply classes:
- sidenoteRight and sidenoteLeft in Page. CSS for these comes from Template:Left sidenote/styles.css and Template:Right sidenote/styles.css. Why do we need different class names? You can already select based on namespace with CSS.
- sidenote-right and sidenote-left elsewhere, which is where the layout CSS hooks in.