The layout for icon_library is making indirect progress. I started putting together a CSS with all the classes and ids of the Negatives base style, but then noticed that there's no shared div around the maincontent and sidebar (or primary and secondary, as they're called in Dreamwidth CSS terms). The layout I want to make would need one though, so I checked out other base styles. I'm now picking apart Five AM.

Wow, Dreamwidth is pretty luxurious! So many divs! Possibly even to the point of redundancy. The outermost div has an inner div, primary has an inner div, almost everthing has an inner div. And so many elements have classes, even several classes for one element! You can style the fuck out of this! For example the security type and the poster's name are listed in the entry div's classes. Which means that you could make a private entry greyish or a bit transparent to make it easier to discern. No more "Shit, is this post public?!" before spotting the little private-post icon. Or you could give certain users' posts a distinguishable style.

My desire to recreate Flexible Squares (especially the combination of icon and poster name that's nowhere to be found in Dreamwidth layouts) in Dw S2 has been reignited. Unfortunately the guides about how to build S2 layouts seem to be still incomplete, but it probably doesn't matter anyway, since I've never understood anything by just reading about it. I'd need an S2 for Dummies or find someone who explains the language to me or even builds the layout for me. *sigh*