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shi zhao

18 Feb 2009 18 Feb '09

9:20 p.m.

see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072 Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org -- Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/ My blog: http://shizhao.org twitter: https://twitter.com/shizhao [[zh:User:Shizhao]]

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Brion Vibber

18 Feb 18 Feb

9:25 p.m.

On 2/18/09 1:20 PM, shi zhao wrote:

see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072 Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

I'd kind of prefer if they just fixed their browser. :) What remaining IE8 issues are there? The first beta was so unusable in general we didn't bother attempting any workarounds on the assumption it would change entirely by later betas... Tracking bug list: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=13361 Still listed as open are: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13363 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13364 -- brion

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David Gerard

9:31 p.m.

New subject: [Wikitech-l] Microsoft’s IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

2009/2/18 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

On 2/18/09 1:20 PM, shi zhao wrote:

> see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072 > Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

I'd kind of prefer if they just fixed their browser. :)

Did you notice microsoft.com on that list? *splutter8 - d.

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Thomas Dalton

9:57 p.m.

New subject: [Wikitech-l] Microsoft’s IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

2009/2/18 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:

2009/2/18 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

On 2/18/09 1:20 PM, shi zhao wrote:

> see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072 > Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

I'd kind of prefer if they just fixed their browser. :)

Did you notice microsoft.com on that list? *splutter8

Yeah, I think we should just wait until they fix their browser... We're standards compliant, aren't we?

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Lane, Ryan

10:13 p.m.

New subject: Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

2009/2/18 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>: Yeah, I think we should just wait until they fix their browser... We're standards compliant, aren't we?

Your reply was probably a joke, but, just in case it wasn't; Microsoft may be getting OEMs to ship with IE8: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=621 V/r, Ryan Lane

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Thomas Dalton

10:22 p.m.

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2009/2/18 Lane, Ryan <Ryan.Lane(a)ocean.navo.navy.mil>il>:

> 2009/2/18 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>: > Yeah, I think we should just wait until they fix their browser... > We're standards compliant, aren't we?

David didn't say that, I did. Be careful with your quoting! (Who were you actually replying to? Your reply doesn't seem to make sense in response to either of our emails...)

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Brion Vibber

10:13 p.m.

On 2/18/09 1:57 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

2009/2/18 David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:

2009/2/18 Brion Vibber<brion(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

On 2/18/09 1:20 PM, shi zhao wrote:

see http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072 Microsoft's IE 8 incompatibility with wikipedia.org

I'd kind of prefer if they just fixed their browser. :)

Did you notice microsoft.com on that list? *splutter8

Yeah, I think we should just wait until they fix their browser... We're standards compliant, aren't we?

Hopefully. ;) Got a couple folks online testing with the current betas now... all the problems we found in the original developer betas appear to have been resolved. Yay! May be a few more minor things, in which case we may or may not need to do tweaks to work around them. So far, though, MediaWiki is tweak-free on IE 8 -- we use IE's version-based conditional comments to trigger in the IE compat tweaks, and none are present for 8. Let's hope it stays that way. :D -- brion

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