#DesignForDisaster

2024-07-12

Apparently, if the world ends, I am going to be going to my death exasperated that #wikipedia is using tables for layout in its notification banners.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

h/t @futurebird

#CSS #AlertBanners #DisasterPreperation #DesignForDisaster

Markup of an emergency alert banner template that uses a table to place an icon to the left of the text.Screenshot of the emergency alert banner template with an exclamation mark icon next to this text:

"Due to *insert event here*, it is likely that interruption of the operation of this encyclopedia is imminent.
Contributors to the encyclopedia are requested to:

confine their edits to typographical correction and vandalism reversion only
commence transfer of Wikipedia content to non-electronic media as soon as possible. More details are available in the relevant section of the Terminal Event Management Policy."

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst