Strategy Wiki's new skin messing up.

[T.testLP]

So, ever since StrategyWiki updated to their new skin, I haven't been able to ascess most pages, even the login page. Anyone else have that?

[Moydow]

I haven't noticed any problems. Have you tried clearing your cache? What exactly is going wrong?

[Jake]

Also, it would help if you could tell us what browser and operating system you are using.

[T.testLP]

Internet Explorer and on Windows 7.

[Moydow]

Internet Explorer... You could use much better, such as Firefox or Chrome, but since IE is so widely used, this may be a problem. I'll mention it to Prod when I see him online.

[T.testLP]

Any news on this? I still can't log in and browse more than two pages without getting an error.

[tacopill]

I have just signed up for an account with StrategyWiki, And thus far, haven't had any problems.

I will continue to to test it as i go along the day, and if any problems pop up, i will report them here.

[Moydow]

Which specific version of Internet Explorer are you using? If you're using IE6, there's not really anything that can be done (even Microsoft themselves are asking people not to use IE6). IE7 isn't much better. The best advice is really just to not use IE at all, unless you must, since it isn't compatible with many web design standards seen in other browsers, that are widely used across the Internet.

[prod]

What kind of error?  Can you provide a screenshot/description?

[Greenpickle]

If it helps, I checked it in IE7, and it's all usable, but there are some minor messed up things, mostly margins and alignments being just out.  Sample screenshots (too lazy to crop...): losing text off the left of columns (the numbers are completely gone), bottom of #siteSub chopped off, right edges of username/password fields don't line up, e-mail button has lots of padding, category text isn't vertically centred.

It looks fine in everything else, though (Firefox (3.6 and 4RC), Chromium, Midori, Epiphany).

[tacopill]

By chromium, do you mean the borwser, or the OS?

[Greenpickle]

...Well, the others in the list are browsers, and the OS is called Chromium OS, IIRC, so the browser.

[tacopill]

...Well, the others in the list are browsers, and the OS is called Chromium OS, IIRC, so the browser.

Ah, ok. I was just making sure.

[dkpat]

...Well, the others in the list are browsers, and the OS is called Chromium OS, IIRC, so the browser.

The Browser is not Chromium.... It is just Chrome... Just a word for the difference. When you say chromium I expect the OS, not the browser

[Tina]

This is slightly off-topic but I figured I would say this anyway: Chromium is the open-source base that Google Chrome is based off of. Google Chrome adds several Google-centric features to it.

[prod]

If it helps, I checked it in IE7, and it's all usable, but there are some minor messed up things, mostly margins and alignments being just out.  Sample screenshots (too lazy to crop...): losing text off the left of columns (the numbers are completely gone), bottom of #siteSub chopped off, right edges of username/password fields don't line up, e-mail button has lots of padding, category text isn't vertically centred.

It looks fine in everything else, though (Firefox (3.6 and 4RC), Chromium, Midori, Epiphany).

Gotta love IE... We'll look into those for our next update.

Oh, and "The Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS, the open-source projects behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS, respectively." from http://www.chromium.org/.

[tacopill]

If it helps, I checked it in IE7, and it's all usable, but there are some minor messed up things, mostly margins and alignments being just out.  Sample screenshots (too lazy to crop...): losing text off the left of columns (the numbers are completely gone), bottom of #siteSub chopped off, right edges of username/password fields don't line up, e-mail button has lots of padding, category text isn't vertically centred.

It looks fine in everything else, though (Firefox (3.6 and 4RC), Chromium, Midori, Epiphany).

Gotta love IE... We'll look into those for our next update.

Oh, and "The Chromium projects include Chromium and Chromium OS, the open-source projects behind the Google Chrome browser and Google Chrome OS, respectively." from http://www.chromium.org/.

Does this mean that there are one or two browsers by google and/or related to the word "chrome"?

[Greenpickle]

I haven't really looked into it, but I get the idea that Google wrote Chrome, then released most of it under an open source license and distributed that as Chromium.  Now, development on Chromium by volunteers plus Google employees is pulled into Chrome and a few things are added to it by Google.

The Chromium project doesn't actually distribute binaries (compiled executables), just the source code, so, while I'm sure builds for commercial OSs exist, it's only really free OSs that use it.  It's Chrome without the branding, update mechanism (free OSs tend to have package managers), tracking, Flash (to keep it free) (bundled, that is - you just need to install Flash separately like with most other browsers) and a load of licensing terms Chrome needs you to agree to.

[tacopill]

So, if i interpret that correctly:

it makes them sibling programs. They swap code between each other, and share many of their respective features with one-another; but each of them are distinct enough to fulfill different roles in Google's intentions, target different users, be under different legal conditions, etc.

I hope i got that correctly. 

[Jake]

Well not exactly. Chromium is the browser itself. However, in an effort to make it more user friendly, Google rebrands it as Chrome and adds features that users need like auto-updates and Flash. That's really the main difference. As Greenpickle said, most linux distributions use Chromium because a Google branded Chrome isn't directly available.