On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
There seem to be some off-and-on CSS issues (not always reproducible) that harm a lot of people and are likely interconnected to some extend.
Please chime in if you have ideas.
Pasting the list so far:
- Page reload error "mw.getConfig is not a function" with Monobook: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42192
something strange, or at least inconsistent with debug mode and when vector skin is active."
- mdale wrote that it "appears the resource loader is doing
- Diffs not colored: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42193
- Missing Gadgets tab (also with Vector skin): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Missing...
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT#Style_sheet_changes
- "WikiEditor panel not loading":
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fragen_zur_Wikipedia#Fehlerhaftes_Fa...
At first glance, these all sound like symptoms of Javascript/CSS not being loaded, or Javascript errors causing the browser to halt Javascript processing.
The errors reported in [1] are suspicious.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technic...
- Editing articles on mr.wikipedia has overlays issues for anon users, makes text unreadable (also with Vector skin): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42170
Maybe this one too. It's harder to tell.
- Maybe also: Edit conflict sometimes does not show the current text: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42163
At first glance, this seems unrelated to me.