[WikiEN-l] Help!

Marc Riddell michaeldavid86 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 8 17:28:22 UTC 2007



> From: Simetrical <Simetrical+wikienl at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:01:59 -0500
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Help!
> 
> On 1/8/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I don't know where else to turn for input on this. I closed out of Wikipedia
>> last evening - everything was fine. This morning, I tried to access it and
>> the entire page is a mess. The WP Globe and contents selections are
>> superimposed over the page, and I don't have access to the log-in or other
>> such buttons. I tried to access WP via a Google search, and got the same
>> thing.
>> 
>> Is anyone else experiencing this? How can I fix it?
> 
> First of all: please upgrade to the latest version of IE if possible.
> Many modern Web features are not supported by IE5.  I will fix this
> mistake immediately, but other website authors might not be so quick
> to respond.  Not many website authors have IE5 installed to test with.
> 
> Second of all: this is an error on my part.  I changed the format of
> the Monobook stylesheet to add better support for handhelds, but
> unfortunately the way I chose to do so was problematic for very old
> browsers.  I'll fix it now.  It might be an hour or two until this is
> fixed on-site.
> 
Thank you very much for the explanation. In the world of computers I am very
much in awe of the experts.

Thanks again,

Marc Riddell
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