(In reply to comment #0)

2. The new edit toolbar isn't displayed. Changing the edit toolbar preferences

doesn't help. Instead, the old toolbar is displayed (and works).

This is because IE8 goes into compatibility mode on Wikipedia, causing it to act like IE7. IE7 has certain RTL-related bugs that mess up the toolbar, so it disables itself.

yonidebest wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

(In reply to comment #0)

2. The new edit toolbar isn't displayed. Changing the edit toolbar preferences

doesn't help. Instead, the old toolbar is displayed (and works).

This is because IE8 goes into compatibility mode on Wikipedia, causing it to
act like IE7. IE7 has certain RTL-related bugs that mess up the toolbar, so it
disables itself.

Why does IE8 go into compatibility mode on Wikipedia? and how can this be fixed?

(In reply to comment #2)

Why does IE8 go into compatibility mode on Wikipedia?

Because Microsoft has put us on some kind of list.

and how can this be
fixed?

By slapping Microsoft ;)

I think you can click the broken page icon next to the refresh icon to switch compat mode on and off.

yonidebest wrote:

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By slapping Microsoft ;)

Can't. We need to deal with what we have.

I think you can click the broken page icon next to the refresh icon to switch
compat mode on and off.

I hope you don't mean to say that this is the solution. The solution shouldn't be based on user's response. I think it is critical to fix this as IE8 is a popular browser in the Israel (where most of the Hebrew Wikipedia users live).

Also, what about problem no. 1? It's pretty annoying to have to scroll to get to my contribs link. This doesn't happen in monobook skin, so it but be fixable.

Thanks.

amiller1 wrote:

It appears this was fixed in r68105. No idea why that code hasn't made it's way to the hebrew wikipedia yet. The problem is with margin-right being used instead of padding-right. r68105 addresses this.

yonidebest wrote:

I reopened the bug. I still see problems 1 & 2 in IE8. I guess r68105 from June 15th didn't help.

amiller1 wrote:

Thats because it was not applied to the hebrew wikipedia. If you inspect main-rtl.css you'll see it's still using margin where it should be using padding.

yonidebest wrote:

OK, then it needs to be fixed before the bug is marked as resolved.

Thank you

(In reply to comment #8)

OK, then it needs to be fixed before the bug is marked as resolved.

Thank you

In general, bugs are resolved as FIXED when a fix is made in SVN, regardless of whether the fix went live already.

yonidebest wrote:

Roan, problem no. 2 has not been fixed.

(In reply to comment #10)

Roan, problem no. 2 has not been fixed.

That's true, but let's open a separate bug for that.

yonidebest wrote:

OK. see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24194