Last modified: 2006-11-25 17:54:09 UTC
The "make table" button (first from the left), when in Edit mode in English Wikipedia, causes the browser to freeze and crash (and people to loose their edits), if one is using Internet Explorer. It works fine in Firefox. But, since many folks still use IE, the button should be removed from the toolbar until it's fixed and works in both IE and Firefox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#New_feature_doesn.27t_seem_to_work
I can confirm this error with Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AStandard.js&diff=77660110&oldid=59364094
There isn't a table editor in the software; someone must have added it on the site so any sysop can remove it.
Okay, I have tracked down the user that made the changes to monobook.js on enwiki. Thanks.
I've got it work work on IE (6 at least). I know that css for addtabs and many other things are broken IE7 beta though not the older ones. I don't know what to say about that...as that is IE's problem. What version of IE is being used here?
I commented out the code for the loading of that button in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.js for now
I have IE 6.0 (which I hardly ever use, except for things like testing and finding bugs). I'm using Windows XP.
Odd, maybe I was using IE5 then. Having tested IE7 CSD1, it crashes there too.
I may have some strange sort of paranoia, but it seems to me since I had these new buttons, I had problems with FireFox 1.5.0.7 to copy text from edit fields with the context menu copy command of Firefox (copy simply didn't work). Since I switched off the table button, this problem didn't reappear again (but not enough edits for a clear statistic). Sorry, chances are extremely high that this is totally unrelated and entierly accidental, but I couldn't resist to report it here. So please take this as FUD until proven related.
I've modified the code for appearance/simplicity/bug reasons. It seems to work in IE7 CSD1 now.
(when it was on the toolbar) It didn't work in IE7 Beta 3, OR IE7 RC1.. -Deon [[en:User_talk:Deon555]]
The (now removed) make table feature on the edit toolbar crashed IE6 (possibly other version) when used the first time after the browser cache was cleared.
