On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Ryan Kaldari kaldari@gmail.com wrote:
Who said anything about dropping support for basic use? I would be surprised if you could tell much difference on Mac IE between Wikipedia with the custom stylesheet and without. But perhaps you could give it a try and report back to us, rather than relying on my wild speculations :)
Is this file unused?
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins/monobook/IEMacF...
It seems that the IE for Mac style is littered through:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/skins/monobook/main.c...
... with an interesting comment:
/* ** IE/Mac fixes, hope to find a validating way to move this ** to a separate stylesheet. This would work but doesn't validate: ** @import("IEMacFixes.css"); */
Would it be acceptable to use a conditional include?
http://stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/
Alternatively, we could load the stylesheet at runtime with JavaScript. That approach is already being used for IE specific JavaScript fixes.
-- John Vandenberg