On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Daniel Barrett <danb(a)vistaprint.com> wrote:
Since upgrading to MediaWiki 1.17.0, I'm seeing a
host of new warnings in
Firefox's 3.6's error console, attributed to mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint:
Warning: Expected 'important' but found 'ie'.
Source File:
http://mywiki.net/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=mediawiki.…
Line: 1
and various others. Are these bugs or a misconfiguration on my end?
These are I believe harmless -- Firefox's classic error console spews a
*lot* of totally irrelevant CSS warnings. This particular bit is about a
pattern that our CSS postprocessing does to handle embedding small images:
a.feedlink{
background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0K....CYII=) center left
no-repeat;
background:url(
http://stormcloud.local/trunk/skins/common/images/feed-icon.png?2011-01-22T…)
center left no-repeat!ie;
}
A single rule specifying an embeddable file by local path is transformed
into two rules: the first using an embedded data: URI, so most browsers
don't have to make a separate HTTP request to get a tiny icon. The second
line references the original file via an expanded full URL. I believe the
'!ie' on the end is a trick to get other browsers to ignore it, while IE
still takes them. (IE's support for data URIs is missing or broken in some
old versions).
-- brion
