Forum:What browsers/OSs are supported by the new Wikia look?

Hi. I'm an admin over at PPC Wiki, and it's come to my attention that one of our members, using the Mozilla Seamonkey browser (the next-to-current version, she says) on Apple OS X.4 had a problem wherein the white-background center column of the page didn't appear--instead, the text was backed by the wiki's background, which is currently a gray patterned design, making it difficult to read for her.

I'm wondering if there's a way I can ensure that the wiki displays properly for everyone, or if that browser, or that OS, or that combination of the two, just aren't supported by the new design. I'd appreciate any advice.

~Neshomeh 19:50, March 23, 2011 (UTC)

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 * As far as I know, Wikia supports most recent Gecko based browsers, so SeaMonkey should not have a problem. I tried viewing PPC Wiki in the current version of SeaMonkey, and it looked fine on my PC with Windows Vista. The background color of the page should not be a problem, since all browsers (that I know of) support background-color in CSS.
 * Generally, browser compatibility issues only happen for elements that have a defined border radius, shadow, or gradient color, because some browsers (like Internet Explorer) do not support those features. Wikia's new skin uses a lot of gradient and border radius values, so those parts won't show correctly in Internet Explorer versions 1-8. Check out this page for more info about that: http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/border-radius/ Gardimuer { ʈalk } 21:24, March 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * Because Microsoft loves ignoring internet standards, W3C made sure that using a gradient overrides . Because of this, web developers (including Wikia) are able to set up their sites such that all elements have a solid background color, unless they support gradients. Because of this, IE should still display everything fine - just, things will probably just look uglier in IE. Border radii won't show up at all, but the element with the radius property should still display all of its other properties normally. That goes for shadows, too.
 * As par the issue at hand, that was likely a temporary glitch, and not something you should worry about long term. If it comes back, reload the page with  or follow the instructions above any random code page for bypassing your cache.

Thank you for the quick responses. The user in question said the wiki displayed as intended with IE 8 on Windows 7, so I doubt if there was a CSS issue in play (though the information about border radii was very interesting). Hopefully it was just a glitch. I'll find out whether she can replicate the problem now that some time has gone by.

~Neshomeh 00:38, March 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello, I'm the user mentioned in the paragraphs above. And I'm still having problems viewing the wiki as it is intended with Seamonkey (version 1.1.17) on Mac OS X.4. But I've been having problems with the wiki and this browser for some time now. Links, buttons and the advertisements seem to be randomly distributed over the page, sometimes hidden behind something else. For a while I could not even log into the wiki in this browser. That problem has resolved. The problem with the wiki-background backing the text remains.

86.90.130.18 07:04, March 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * Isn't Seamonkey older than dirt? You should get a more current and widely used browser, such as Chrome, Firefox, or Opera.