[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 28350] REGRESSION (r47255): MediaWiki's (including Wikipedia) navigation pane appears below the main content

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28350


Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+webkit at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #33 from Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+webkit at gmail.com>  2009-08-16 16:24:42 PDT ---
This was due to ludicrously broken UA-sniffing on our part; sorry about that. 
For those who didn't catch it, in May 2004 someone committed a workaround to
MediaWiki for a KHTML bug.  Unfortunately, rather than using version-based
sniffing, he just assumed all KHTML versions would have the bug forever --
KHTML was rather minor back then and it probably didn't seem important.  So we
ended up serving the fix to WebKit well over five years later.

It came to light when I was trying out a switch to HTML 5, and the strict
doctype caused incorrect display in WebKit.  When I figured out the problem I
removed the check in r53141, which Derk-Jan linked to.  The fix will be in
MediaWiki 1.16 and should go live on Wikipedia within a few weeks, but you're
going to have to handle it for other MediaWiki installs for years, sadly.

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