On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>
Many months later, I've finally fixed this, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/110988 . The fix
will be in the 1.19 release.

Roan

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