Comment #60 on issue 19586 by Simetrical: MediaWiki page display issue
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19586

Well, it was "standards-compliant" in the sense that everything validated,  
it just
produced an undesired visual effect.  :)  Specifically, in 2004 someone  
added some
code to MW that served different content to KHTML to work around a KHTML  
bug.  It
turns out that same code got served to WebKit, even long after the bug was  
fixed
(i.e., the UA sniffing in MW was completely broken).  For some reason that  
I'm not
clear on, WebKit still rendered the broken markup correctly (if in  
almost-standards
mode) until a few months ago, at which point it started rendering this more
standards-compliantly and the bug cropped up.  Actually, I had removed the  
code from
MW somewhat before this point, but it will take a *long* time for the fix  
to make it
out to all or even most MW installations.

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