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Tom-* User talk:Tom-/2004 == About the Other Languages picture... == Hi Tom, There was that annoying problem that the image [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Other-langs2.png&redirect=no en:Image:Other-langs2.png], because it is also a redirect to Wikipedia:Languages, previously would have gotten displayed on top of that article if the user clicked the image on the home page (but not if they clicked the text link). I've fixed this by creating a redirect at [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Redirecting_to_Wikipedia:languages...&redirect=no meta:Redirecting_to_Wikipedia:languages...] and including that. So if the user clicks on the link on the Main Page here, they get redirected to the above page on Meta which in turn redirects them to Wikipedia:Languages. Because the image here at the English Wikipedia does no longer redirect ''straight'' to Wikipedia:Languages, the image no longer gets rendered on the top of the screen. It's a roundabout way, but it works. User:Ropers 10:49, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) == MSIE style sheet addition == Hi Tom. I've searched high and low for information about editing the Explorer-specific style sheets, and all I found was a sub-page of your user page. MSIE/Win doesn't automatically substitute fonts for characters that aren't supported by the display font. Consequently, text with many International Phonetic Alphabet characters fails to display correctly. Other browsers and platforms which support Unicode don't seem to have this problem. Some of us have cobbled together :Template:IPA (Template talk:IPA ), which supplies MSIE with a font-family declaration to fix this. In other browsers it sets the font-family back to inherit, but this is hidden from MSIE 6 with a CSS filter. This solution is a bit of a hack, and vulnerable to editing by well-meaning users who don't know the details. It would be best to hide it away from all browsers except MSIE in one of the IEFixes.css style sheets. I don't know which version is most appropriate; I don't have the facilities to test it in various versions (Mac user), but MSIE 6 users seem happy with it as it stands, and no one else has complained that it's exploded their browser. The ideal declaration would be: .IPA { font-family: Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Gentium, Code2000; } Then I could reduce Template:IPA to: filter declaration, so the results in other software are totally unpredictable. Even if that's not the cause, it's hard to trouble-shoot if the style sheets don't validate. Thanks for having a look.
:: Do you have access to monobook/main.css, or should I be trying to track down another developer to fix the errors in that style sheet? Cheers. ''—User:Mzajac User talk:Mzajac 2005-01-21 20:51Z''
::: Ignore the parse error, the CSS is invalid but it won't cause problems. I do have developer access, and I've just booted up my mac to try and track the problem down. As of yet I can't even replicated the problem however :( User:Tom- 20:54, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
:::: Apparently fixed now, seems Safari has a nasty and very weird bug with opacity. I'll send a bug report to Apple. User:Tom- 23:31, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
::::: Thank you, thank you. I'm quite interested in this kind of thing. What's the nature of the bug? Regards, User:Mzajac
:::::: I'm not actually sure, as I only have Safari 1.0, which doesn't show this bug. I'm trying to get Panther installed so I can test it fully. On the face of it, Safari is incorrectly applying the opacity property (which it does support as of 1.2) to form elements, when it should only be applying it to inactive tabs. It's all rather strange... User:Tom- 10:08, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks again for fixing the background-color/transparency problem, Tom. Anyway, when you have a minute, could you fix some of the syntax errors, too? When the style sheets don't validate there's no way to predict how they'll break rendering in someone else's browser.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/skins/monobook/main.css monobook/main.css]:
* Line 66: the validator doesn't seem to like mixed case in colour keywords, although I can't find anything about this in the W3C recommendations ("Orange" → "orange")
* Line 239: "none" is not a valid value for margin or padding, it should be "margin: 0; padding 0;"
* Line 930: missing semicolon
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=2678400 monobook.css]:
* Lines 160, 164: why not put Microsoft things like "filter" into one of the IE-specific style sheets?
Sorry to bug you with this trivial stuff. I would do it myself if I had access, and I don't know any other way to get this fixed.
Thanks, User:Mzajac
== MediaWiki:Monobook.css ==
Please revert [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.css&diff=next&oldid=10109434 this change] ASAP. It is messing up the display of table of contents. -- User:Netoholic User talk:Netoholic 06:14, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)
==WikiNorthampton==
Hi Tom Brookie here from Grendon - good to see local skills on the Wiki! User:Brookie 13:43, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== system messages/ markup question ==
Hi Tom.
I had a question and sannse on freenode/#wikipedia reccommended that I ask you. I am trying to make http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin look exactly like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin . But I am stuck... there are three differences which I cant seem to overcome.
* The yellow box in en.
* The text on en appears at right of the login text boxes and on gu: it appears at the bottom.
* There is an extra button on gu:
Can you tell me what am I missing?
You can reply to my talkpage here or preferably on my talkpage on :gu:User:Spundun.
Thanks.
--User:Spundun 07:28, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
== Introduction templates ==
Just wondering if you could chime in on why the Template_talk:Please leave this line alone templates are designed the way the are, etc. 17:11, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)Tom-Hello, I'm Tom, from Northampton in England. My interests include the BBC (who I work for in a non-journalistic job), radio, television, web development (including HTML and CSS). == Timeline == * February 23 2004: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Northampton&diff=2513812&oldid=2496411 First edited] Wikipedia * May 2 2004: 1000th edit * May 28 2004: became an Wikipedia:Administrators * January 12 2005: became a m:Developer == Stuff I've done == === Articles I started === * 78 Derngate * BBC Local Radio and 38 station pages * Broadcasting House * Bush House * Mark Thompson * Wicksteed Park === Articles I've contributed to === * bbc.co.uk * BBC World Service * British Broadcasting Corporation * Northampton * Northamptonshire === Article of the week === I kicked off the Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week project, and help run it. Help contribute! === Photos === __NOTOC__ See other meanings of words starting from letter: TTA | TB | TC | TD | TE | TF | TG | TH | TI | TJ | TK | TL | TŁ | TM | TN | TO | TP | TR | TS | TU | TW | TX | TY | TZ |Words begining with Tom-: Tom- Tom- Tom-/2004 Tom-/AOTW Tom-/IE_bugs Tom-/Language_test Tom-/Main_Page_argument Tom-/Main_Page_CSS_test Tom-/Main_Page_test Tom-/Main_Page_test Tom-/mediawiki.js Tom-/monobook.css Tom-/monobook.js Tom-/myskin.css Tom-/NS4_test Tom-/Sandbox Tom-/sandbox Tom-/Search_issues Tom-/TODO Tom-/unknown Tom-/unknown/1 Tom-/unknown/2 Tom-/unknown/3 Tom-/Wikipedia_guide Tom-/Wikipedia_IE_issues Tom-atle Tom-Atle_Herland Tom-Atle_Herland Tom-b Tom-land Tom-Timmy Tom-Tom Tom-tom Tom-tom_drum Tom-tom_drum |
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