User preferences in Chick skin aren't clickable
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	• bzimport
	May 4 2006, 10:18 AM

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Author: brianna.laugher

Description:
Hello,

I have had a user at the Commons report to me that he
is "stuck" in the Chick skin because the preferences
aren't clickable, and he can't change it back. I am rather
afraid to change my own account into it to check because
of this! Please advise this user directly:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GrahamBould#Re:
_Preferences

Thanks.

User's comment:
As soon as I did this [chose 'Chick' skin] a lot of things
went haywire - most Preferences aren't clickable,
including Skins, & the layout is awful. Editing is bad,
can't get the cursor to go where want, etc, etc. It points
to corruption somewhere...

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows 2000
Platform: PC

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Reference: bz5825

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:13 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Core-Preferences.

• bzimport set Reference to bz5825.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.May 4 2006, 10:18 AM

robchur wrote:

Advised user of workaround to switch back to Monobook through preferences.
Sounds like the skin is borked and should be fixed or removed.

brianna.laugher wrote:

Thanks very much for the speedy response! It's
appreciated.

I tried it and could change back well. It's a little less intuitive as the tabs
are shown as normal links, but i think it does work.

robchur wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

I tried it and could change back well. It's a little less intuitive as the tabs
are shown as normal links, but i think it does work.

The point is that more than one user has reported problems using the damn skin
at all, let alone changing preferences back. Perhaps it's due to the nature of
the skin's intended use (on small portable devices), and perhaps it's due to a
crap skin.

Whatever the reason, it needs to be addressed.

Works fine in Firefox

Tagging as broken in IE ( blocks #640 )

trialsanderrors wrote:

So what's the workaround? Because I got the same problem, about half of the links don't work in Chick, and the only
one working in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences is "Date & Time".