Last modified: 2011-04-13 20:17:51 UTC
Created attachment 7459 [details] Scenario: User clicks on "Hilfe und Projektseiten". The first time it doesn't work, the 2nd time it does Hi, it's difficult to describe this error, see the screenshot attached. Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search (oddly, it only seems to happen on dewiki) 2. Click on either of the links "Multimedia", "Hilfe und Projektseiten", etc. 3. The correct page isn't loaded, instead the link gets displaced 4. Click on it again and it works. That doesn't always happen, so you might need some tries until you see the error. I confirmed this bug in Firefox 3.6.3 and Chrome 5.0.375.70 beta.
Bug was CSS-based, and deWP-specific. Fixed by repairing the CSS 'overrides'. http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACommon.css&action=historysubmit&diff=75462968&oldid=75430138
I'm sorry to say that Guandalug is not entirely right. The bug was indeed made worse by stuff in [[de:MediaWiki:Common.css]] (in that it became visible even without https), but is present on any wiki that is on a https server. What's going on is really weird. The links inside the buttons initially have href attributes with a relative URL (e.g. href="/wikipedia/de/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Suche&fulltext=Suche&ns0=1&redirs=0"). When they are clicked, they become absolute (e.g. href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Suche&fulltext=Suche&ns0=1&redirs=0&search="). And now the skins try to add neat icons next to them and mess around with the padding, because the href attributes suddenly match rules like (from vector): #content a[href ^="https://"], .link-https { background: url(images/lock-icon.png?2) center right no-repeat; padding: 0 13px 0 0; } The easy CSS fix is to not let them do this (I'll implement this in [[de:MediaWiki:Common.css]] and attach a patch). But I wonder why the URLs have to become absolute at all.
Created attachment 7556 [details] workaround in CSS
Another (and probably better) approach is to let the skins add their icons only if the class "external" is present (which it is not in this case). All the skins would have to be checked, however.
Can't reproduce anymore
