## Coding Style
- Use lowercase filenames
- Do not use underscores in filenames
+- File extensions:
-Take note about the following fileextensions is preferred over their alternatives: `.md`, `.html`, `.jpg`
+ Type | Extension
+ -------- | ---------
+ Markdown | .md
+ HTML | .html
+ JPEG | .jpg
-### MARKDOWN - editorial content
-- Use Brittish English
+Take note about the following fileextensions is preferred over their
+alternatives: `.md`, `.html`, `.jpg`
+
+### Editorial content
+- Use British English
+- Abbreviate with caution
+- Avoid contractions
+- Do not use hyphens as em dashes. Em dashes do not have space around them.
+- Avoid jargon
+- Content changes require approval
+ - If you are on freenode staff, you should know where to ask
+ - If not, any staff can relay to the right people as appropriate
### CSS
- Four spaces as indentation
- Opening curly bracket on the same line as the selector
-- One selector per line, if multiple selectors are grouped then commas + newline is used
+- One selector per line, if multiple selectors are grouped then commas +
+ newline is used
- One space between selector and opening curly brackets
-- Closing curly bracket should be placed on its own line with one empty line after
-- Rules containing only one Declaration can be put on one single line, a space is required after `{` and before `}`
+- Closing curly bracket should be placed on its own line with one empty line
+ after
+- Rules containing only one Declaration can be put on one single line, a space
+ is required after `{` and before `}`
- Comments
- - One line comments (`/* ... */`) should have a space after the opening `/*` and a space before the closing `*/`
- - Multi line comments should have the closing `*/` on an own line,
- text are allowed on the same row as the opening `/*`.
- Note that there must be a space after the opening `/*`.
- One asterix per line, aligned with the ones in the opening and closing `/*` and `*/`, with one space after the asterix
-- Abbrevations are allowed if they are explained in a comment just before their first appearance. Format: `/* <abbrevation> = <expanded abbrevation> [(optional comment)] */
+ - One line comments (`/* ... */`) should have a space after the opening `/*`
+ and a space before the closing `*/`
+ - Multi line comments should have the closing `*/` on an own line, text are
+ allowed on the same row as the opening `/*`. Note that there must be a
+ space after the opening `/*`. One asterix per line, aligned with the ones
+ in the opening and closing `/*` and `*/`, with one space after the asterix
+- Abbrevations are allowed if they are explained in a comment just before their
+ first appearance. Format: `/* <abbrevation> = <expanded abbrevation>
+ [(optional comment)] */`
- All variables should be declared in `:root {}`
- All custom media should be declared directly after `:root {}`
-- Reuse variables rather than creating new ones, if possible. (this is to keep a condensed palette)
+- Reuse variables rather than creating new ones, if possible. (this is to keep
+ a condensed palette)
- All colors must be variables, no colors are declared after `:root { }`
This does not apply to third party css such as open sans, font awesome and freenode.css
- No spaces around `=`
A *.footerchild* should contain at least 3 items, it just look silly otherwise.
+
+### JS
+JavaScript should be used sparsely and should not break the usability of the site for browsers without JavaScript
+- For style, follow [JavaScript Standard Style](https://standardjs.com/)
+- Document with [jsdoc](http://usejsdoc.org/) at least to describe what every function does
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