User talk:Darenwelsh

— billinghurst  sDrewth  14:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

I've downloaded your extension
Hi

I've downloaded your extension Masonry, looks interesting, and have started playing around with it. I've been interested in the Masonry layout of a while and plan on giving your extension a good test drive. I also published a CSS snippet here that does the same type of layout via CSS. See: Snippets/Pinterest Like Gallery.

All the best to you.

Christharp (talk) 17:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I hope you find it useful. This extension started when we began adding more and more blocks to our corporate wiki main page as a means of advertising current events and important articles. The formatting to efficiently structure blocks quickly became a nuisance. I searched around for different methods to "Pinterestize" web content, but each had their pros and cons. This particular javascript seemed to be pretty flexible and wasn't too difficult to make compatible with MW.

If you have any questions or suggestions for improvement, feel free to contact me or submit a pull request.

Darenwelsh (talk) 17:59, 17 November 2014 (UTC)


 * After I play with it for a while I'll come back and give you my three cents worth of insights. I plan on running it on the Foreground skin, which I find to be a far more beautiful skin then vector. Plus it has the benefit of being build on top of the Foundation Framework. See Wikiapiary as an example of the skin. I mention this because generally I find people love Mediawiki & Semantic Mediawiki, but hate the limitations in design. (And considering you wrote an extension involving a design aspect I thought maybe you would like it)

All the best Christharp (talk) 18:29, 17 November 2014 (UTC)