Last modified: 2011-05-20 22:39:14 UTC
The <abbr> and <acronym> tags were whitelisted with bug 671, but there are some CSS rules for them since long, long times. They can be found in the first versions of chick, monobook and are carried on to vector skin. The lines I'm complaining about are abbr, acronym, .explain { color: black; background: none; } which are senseless from my perspective. Often these tags are used in links, e.g. [[Normalnull|<abbr title="meter above see level">NN</abbr>]]. But in here the color:black; makes the text unrecognizable as a hyperlink (together with the senseful cursor:help; rule). When these rules where meant to override some crazy browserdependent default settings, they should be be changed to "inherit".
Created attachment 8535 [details] proposed patch
As I recall they are indeed meant to override some crazy browser defaults; "inherit" had problems in some older browsers but is *probably* fine now. Needs a confirmation check in supported browsers.
applied by Mark with r88118, but monobook was forgotten?
added r88498