Hi Jean-Marc and everyone there, I have just redone my new skin, based on Jean-Marc's suggestion to use Monobook as a base, but it still breaks in IE. I am using MediaWiki Version 1.14.
The new skin is now adopted at Webmasterteachyourself.com<http://webmasterteachyourself.com/Main_Page>. I have displayed both the following files for the new skin in the website: * Nuskin.php <http://webmasterteachyourself.com/MediaWiki:Nuskin.php> * main.css <http://webmasterteachyourself.com/MediaWiki:Nuskin_main.css>All other files are unchanged. I suspect it is the use of em instead of px but I am not so sure. The skin looks good to me in Firefox 1024 x 768 but sure looks ugly... very very ugly with 800 x 600. Any workaround for that? (P/S: Jean-Marc, can I have a look at your website?) PM Poon On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Ekompute .info <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jean-Marc, thank you for your response. I am using clean_and_blue > because it is the closest thing that comes to my concept for a new > skin. Apparently, the designer is having some problems with IE too, so > it was a bad choice, given my computer knowledge. > > Anyway, let me work out a few more details within the next two or > three days so that I can get it displayed. Then, I will contact you > for further assistance. > > Regards and thank you for your helpfulness. > > PM Poon > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Jean-Marc van > Leerdam<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 2009/6/10 Ekompute .info <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, I am trying to design a new skin and although it looks good on > >> Firefox, it looks broken in IE. I am no programmer and to be able to > >> design a new skin that works in Firefox is admittedly an achievement > >> by my own lousy standards. > >> > >> Instead taking care of IE fixes with its many many versions and other > >> browsers as well, I am thinking of using my skin only for Firefox > >> browers and monobook for the rest. How do I tweak this code in > >> LocalSettings.php: > >> > >> $wgDefaultSkin = 'newskin'; > >> > >> I guess it's something like: if Firebox browser, use 'newskin', else > >> use 'monobook'. > >> > > > > There should be some middleground to have a skin that looks proper in > > both IE and FF. I know FF has more conformant support for CSS, but IE > > isn't that bad. > > > > Did you base your skin on monobook? There are provisions in that skin > > to deal with various IE peculiarities. I have created a new skin based > > on monobook (1.13, don't know if 1.14 or 1.15 have radically changed > > the way monobook is skinned) that works OK on both FF and IE. > > > > What are your requirements for the skin, and where does it break in IE? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Jean-Marc > > -- > > . ___ > > . @@ // \\ "De Chelonian Mobile" > > . (_,\/ \_/ \ TortoiseSVN > > . \ \_/_\_/> The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control > > . /_/ \_\ http://tortoisesvn.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
