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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Bug 12681: should the change be applied?
From:       Brion Vibber <brion () wikimedia ! org>
Date:       2008-01-25 23:57:26
Message-ID: 479A7766.70405 () wikimedia ! org
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Huji wrote:
> Please take a few seconds to have a look at
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12681 and help with your
> comments about whether we should apply this change or not. Applying it will
> prevent people from spoofing the "new message" alert, but at the same time,
> will make the new message bar to appear where it never appeared before,
> which may not be desired.

I've reverted this change for now as the moved bar interferes with 
various templates in use on Wikimedia sites such as geolocation, 
protected and featured article icons, etc.

These are currently stuck up above the article content area with 
absolute positioning -- meaning it fails when there's more space than 
expected.

This has been an intermittent problem with the site notice, but with a 
big ol' bar that stretches across the whole content area it affects even 
people with large window sizes.

We'd like to figure out a nicer way to handle these templates; once 
that's done and we can remove the positioning hacks, we can revisit this 
sort of change.

-- brion

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