Last modified: 2013-03-18 17:31:04 UTC
The latest internal release of IE, version 7.0.5331.0, has an issue with MediaWiki 1.5.7 where the links user, user talk, etc. that normally appear in the top right are in the top left. This is both ugly and extrememly annoying, because if you try to click on them, you'll click on the logo instead and go to the home page. This release of IE is not public, but I'll try to attach a screenshot and will be happy to evaluate any potential solution for developers on my own MediaWiki server. The problem reproduces on my wiki (a slightly modified 1.5.7 at literateprograms.org) but not on Wikipedia.
Created attachment 1446 [details] A screenshot of the issue described
Note that this may be an IE7 issue rather than a MediaWiki issue. I'll pass it on to the IE team if you think it's an IE7 issue.
No problems with 7.0.5296.0. A regression could be either due to bugs in IE, bugs in our workarounds for IE bugs exposed by new changes, etc. Is this available in the latest Vista beta build, or is it really internal-only? I've had huge troubles getting Vista working in VMWare (if it installs, usually there's no networking...) Note: we've done more extensive changes to the IE bug workarounds in MediaWiki 1.6, fixing lots of problems primarily with right-to-left languages. This might change behavior for LTR as well. You can test this at our own sites (eg, http://en.wikipedia.org and friends) or install a local copy from CVS.
The issue doesn't repro on English Wikipedia. I'm guessing some change in 1.6 fixed it. I'll try some selective merging and see if I can confirm this.
I did the following and this issue went away. 1. Replace these 2 lines in MediaWiki 1.5.7's skins/MonoBook.php: <!--[if gte IE 6]><style type="text/css">@import "<?php $this->text('stylepath') ?>/<?php $this->text('stylename') ?>/IE60Fixes.css";</style><![endif]--> <!--[if lt IE 7]><script type="<?php $this->text('jsmimetype') ?>" src="<?php $this->text ('stylepath') ?>/common/IEFixes.js"></script> with these 2 lines from the current build: <!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">@import "<?php $this->text('stylepath') ?>/<?php $this->text('stylename') ?>/IE60Fixes.css";</style><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7]><style type="text/css">@import "<?php $this->text('stylepath') ?>/<?php $this->text('stylename') ?>/IE70Fixes.css?1";</style><![endif]--> 2. Copy in the file skins/monobook/IE70Fixes.css from the current build. At least for MonoBook, this made the links appear in the correct place again.
Currently the latest IE7 version is 7.0.5700.6IS (=Release Candidate 1). In the Wikipedia's current version of Mediawiki, IE70Fixes.css has a line that sets the height of content (div that has id="content") to 1%. It fixes some problems with links I'm not sure... Is this fix any longer valid?
I don't have problems with 7.0.5600.16384 (in Vista RC1).
I have this problem in 1.8 with 7.0.5730.11 script output has the IE70Fixes.css commented out (maybe that's the way it's supposed to work(?)- like this: <link title="Creative Commons" type="application/rdf+xml" href="/wiki/index.php? title=Category:Standards&action=creativecommons" rel="meta" /> <link rel="copyright" href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html" /> <title>Category:Standards - HelpNET</title> <style type="text/css" media="screen,projection">/*<![CDATA[*/ @import "/wiki/skins/monobook/main.css?42"; /*]]>*/</style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="/wiki/skins/common/commonPrint.css?42" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="handheld" href="/wiki/skins/monobook/handheld.css?42" /> <!--[if lt IE 5.5000]><style type="text/css">@import "/wiki/skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css? 42";</style><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 5.5000]><style type="text/css">@import "/wiki/skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css? 42";</style><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">@import "/wiki/skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css? 42";</style><![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7]><style type="text/css">@import "/wiki/skins/monobook/IE70Fixes.css? 42";</style><![endif]--> <!--[if lt IE 7]><script type="text/javascript" src="/wiki/skins/common/IEFixes.js? 42"></script> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /><![endif]--> <script type= "text/javascript">/*<