This has not been fixed. Netscape 7 works but Internet Explorer 5.1 doesn't from Macintosh 9 OS (and classic OS).
Fred
From: James Munroe james@jamesmunroe.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 03:51:49 -0400 To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Wiki content no longer visible on new template!
Urgent:
All pages with the new template (containing '<body class="ns-4">' without the single quotes) have content that is invisible under IE5 running under the Mac Classic OS, and possibly other OS'es as well.
This means that, when I look up, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X I can see only the template, but nothing whatever referring to Malcolm X -- I have to view the HTML source to read even a cumbersome version of that. This applies to the Wikipedia:About page as well as all pages appearing as ordinary topics under the /wiki/ subdirectory.
I'm sure it's obvious, but I'll say it anyway: fancy style sheets that render pages unreadable on some common browser-OS combinations are a really, really bad idea, especially for an open-source, user-editable knowledge repository.
Please, let's do something to fix this!!!
Thank you in advance.
James Munroe
P.S. Apologies if this should have been addressed elsewhere, but the choices of where to send on the mailing lists are, as William Peter Blatty would put it, "too numerous to enumerate."
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Fred Bauder wrote:
This has not been fixed. Netscape 7 works but Internet Explorer 5.1 doesn't from Macintosh 9 OS (and classic OS).
a) Did you reload the stylesheets? b) I can't test 5.1, as it's not available for Mac OS X and the Classic versions claims to be "incompatible" with OS X. I can only test 5.2 and 5.0 (for Classic), which *both work* now.
I need *your* help if you want it fixed.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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