From Tearsofblood

CSS Issues

I did some research on why my CSS was broken on IE. It turns out that the comment before the doctype on the HTML pages generated by the wiki code puts IE6 and 7 (the version I was testing on) into quirks mode. What this means is that when IE reads the page, it decides it's a non-standards compliant page. Since most old non-stantards compliant pages relied on the buggy CSS support of older browsers, it emulates these bugs. In other words, it starts acting like IE5.

This is very bad. IE5's CSS support (and thus the quirks mode) is buggy as hell. I don't mean to sound rude, especially after offering to help out, but I refuse to work around IE5 bugs just to get IE6/7 to work. The version of MediaWiki being run by this site has been altered to insert a comment at the start of the page. A normal MediaWiki (for instance, the one at Wikipedia) server doesn't do this. Whoever made this change broke CSS in IE6/7.

I'm going to attempt to find a work around to force IE into standard mode. If that can't be done, I'll see if I can get in touch with the admins of this site and talk to them about the issue. If neither of these approches work, I don't know what to suggest, other than finding a different wiki hosting service.

Levi 03:20, 19 June 2007 (EDT)