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Bug 18679 - Strange font issued by Internet Explorer 8
Strange font issued by Internet Explorer 8
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All Windows XP
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-05-04 13:33 UTC by Woojin Kim
Modified: 2014-04-29 16:28 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Woojin Kim 2009-05-04 13:33:16 UTC
I visited Korean Wikiquote (http://ko.wikiquote.org) in monobook skin. All text (even in editform) is rendered in serif font. I checked MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWIki:Monobook.css and found no error.

Text rendering in modern skin was OK. but problem is monobook skin. I think Internet Explorer 8 is making error in rendering.

Microsoft Developer centre peovides the manual here -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc817574.aspx I hope this page would be helpful. Thank you!
Comment 1 Splarka 2009-05-04 13:39:21 UTC
Does it work in "IE7" Compatability mode? does it work on other ko. projects such as http://ko.wiktionary.org/ or http://ko.wikipedia.org/ ? Is the serif font a monospace?

IE8 installs are known to sometimes have individual font selection problems/quirks, not something MediaWiki can do much about (except to add an IE8Fixes.css and explicity set every font, which doesn't even work for all problems). Most likely INVALID
Comment 2 Shinjiman 2009-05-04 13:54:08 UTC
AFAIK, the IE7 Compatability mode will always set to enable when the URL is either wikimedia.org, wikipedia.de, wikipedia.org or wiktionary.org.

see res://iecompat.dll/iecompatdata.xml for the full list of websites will always using the IE7 Compability mode. 
Comment 3 Woojin Kim 2009-05-05 03:22:44 UTC
I didn't change my font preferences. Korean wikipedia, wiktionary, wikisource is OK. but kowikibooks and kowikiquote seems to be *not* OK.
Comment 4 Erwin Dokter 2014-04-29 16:28:36 UTC
I doubt this is still an issue, as it was reported 5 years ago. Cannot reproduce.

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