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Bug 26035 - make sure 'empty' sections are also empty on text browsers
make sure 'empty' sections are also empty on text browsers
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23026
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Interface (Other open bugs)
1.17.x
All All
: Low minor (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Trevor Parscal
: accessibility
Depends on:
Blocks: 367
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Reported: 2010-11-21 06:52 UTC by Dan Jacobson
Modified: 2012-09-27 01:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Dan Jacobson 2010-11-21 06:52:04 UTC
Fine with me if you want to make empty sections (Bug #23026). Go right
ahead. But please please please do it a cleaner way, making sure that
they don't still inadvertently show up visible in text browsers!!

$ w3m -dump http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Specialpages | grep -C 7 Views

Namespaces

  • Special page

Variants

Views

Actions

Search

[                    ] [Go] [Search]

$ GET http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:Specialpages | grep -A 1 empty
<div id="p-variants" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet">
		<h5><span>Variants</span><a href="#"></a></h5>
--
<div id="p-views" class="vectorTabs emptyPortlet">
	<h5>Views</h5>
--
<div id="p-cactions" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet">
	<h5><span>Actions</span><a href="#"></a></h5>

If you can't do it a cleaner way, then don't do it in the first place.
We never had such a problem with other skins.

If it is not to be shown to the general public, then don't show it to
text browsers users either, please.
Comment 1 Dan Jacobson 2010-11-21 06:54:17 UTC
Use Alt V Y N (View -> Page Style -> No style) to see the bug in Firefox.
Comment 2 Christopher Yeleighton 2011-06-15 12:23:39 UTC
empty lists are not valid per XHTML.

<URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki >

Line 214, Column 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished

(at least one list item must be present)
Comment 3 Roan Kattouw 2011-06-15 14:13:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> empty lists are not valid per XHTML.
> 
> <URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki >
> 
> Line 214, Column 10: end tag for "ul" which is not finished
> 
> (at least one list item must be present)
We know, and we don't care. This restriction in XHTML is stupid, and was removed in HTML5. See bug 24500 comment 7 for the full argument for keeping these empty lists.
Comment 4 Krinkle 2011-06-20 12:30:08 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24500 ***
Comment 5 Krinkle 2011-06-20 12:33:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23026 ***

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