On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a question about an infrastructural detail of ResourceLoader and how > it interacts with Internet Explorer. (It's my first post to wikitech-l, so > apologies if it's the wrong forum.) > You're in the right place, don't worry :)
> Our MediaWiki 1.17.0 site recently installed a bunch of extensions that use > ResourceLoader, such as Extension:WikiEditor. To our surprise, some of our > site's unrelated CSS styles stopped working. This was happening only in > Internet Explorer. After some detective work, we discovered the problem is > Internet Explorer's limit of 31 stylesheets: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262161 > ZOMG. I had no idea MSIE had that limit. And I thought I'd pretty much discovered the extent of IE's retardation. This makes me sad. > 1. Is there a workaround for sites like mine, with many stylesheets from > separate extensions loaded by ResourceLoader? > > 2. Should ResourceLoader address this IE problem? Maybe start combining > stylesheets (with @import) automatically? > RL should address this problem, yes, but it currently doesn't because its authors (of which I am one) were not aware of this issue. I've filed this as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31676 , thanks for the report. Roan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
