[unofficial RFC] CSS is missing, opinions on moving govspeak CSS into govspeak. about govspeak

[mcgoooo]

https://github.com/alphagov/static/compare/missing-govspeak?expand=1

[mcgoooo]

from slack with @36degrees and @danielroseman

Some of the govspeak CSS is for functionality that doesn’t exist in the Govspeak gem - it only exists in Whitehall.

[11:19 AM]
e.g. https://github.com/alphagov/static/blob/master/app/assets/stylesheets/govuk-component/govspeak/_fraction.scss - that’s what the ticks and crosses in the doc block are for
GitHub
alphagov/static
GOV.UK static files and resources

[11:19 AM]
that magic comes from https://github.com/alphagov/whitehall/blob/19cd7d72de32454d532c195f35b027fa1b3ba6ac/app/helpers/govspeak_helper.rb
GitHub
alphagov/whitehall
whitehall - Rails application that publishes and renders most pages on www.gov.uk/government

[11:20 AM]
AFAICT, whitehall supports a superset of what’s in alphagov/govspeak

[11:21 AM]
Daniel Roseman That shouldn’t be the case any more, we spent a lot of time last year moving all the extra functionality into the gem (edited)

[11:21 AM]
fractions is the one exception since it is literally only used by one single publication

[11:24 AM]
Oliver Byford Aah, interesting. I think it felt like there was more of a disjunct, but yeah it is actually only that fraction file with a cross for govspeak.

[11:25 AM]
It was very hard to work out what was going on when I was doing that work, I think originally more things had crosses until I got more clarity

[mcgoooo]

alphagov/static#956