[Mediawiki-l] table templates behaving differently in IE?

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 22:53:53 UTC 2007


> If my interpretation of Jim Hu's question ("[Mediawiki-l] IE7
> extension textarea problem - just me? css?" dd. 30-Nov) is correct,
> he's probably suffering the same problem.
>
> If that is expected behaviour for IE, and given that the &nbs; does
> not screw up the display of the other browsers, would it make sense
> for MediaWiki to make non-breaking spaces the  default?  Or is he
> right in that we can/should fix this ourselves via the css?

The default what? The default for a parameter if none is specified is
a literal {{{1}}} or similar (which will display in any browser, but
isn't really desirable). The default of a space was entered into the
wikitext manually, just as the default of a non-breaking space was.



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