Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5454372-20140429061912/@comment-5454372-20140430050445

I'll certainly give that a shot, thanks Penguin-Pal!

Fandyllic wrote: Where would you put this code? In Special:MyPage/wikia.css? If you're referring to Penguin-Pal's code, I think that'd have to go in Special:Mypage/wikia.js given that's javascript (...I think).

If you're asking about where I wanted it: several iOS users are having trouble accessing wikis using some CSS I wrote. The admin of the site wants to allow people to selectively opt out of using the skin rather than opting in, so any code that goes on a personal CSS or JS page would probably suit those purposes.

Further details: the CSS in question can be found here, while one of the wikis currently using it can be found here. I've found that iPad users on iOS 6 can bypass the crashing if the load the page in landscape orientation. iPhone and iPod users appear to crash if they attempt to load the full Wikia skin. Apparently, updating to iOS 7 resolves most of this.

As seen in the CSS code, I used a version of the Deadspace Wiki's CSS as the basis of my derivative skin. It appears that the original CSS also has the same issues with iOS 6 crashes.

I've already suggested individual users switching to the Monobook skin as a temporary workaround, but that's obviously not something we'd want to use as a long term solution.

I suspect it has something to do with some CSS positioning code and the way the Wikia modules move around depending on which orientation you're viewing the wiki from, but I've yet to find a concrete answer. iOS 7 users apparently don't have this problem.

That's most of the technical info. While we could activate the skin for individual users via their personal CSS pages, the majority of users appear to favour the new CSS look as opposed to the old one, which is why I'm asking for "opt-out" methods rather than simply recommending an opt-in approach.