Last modified: 2014-09-16 03:18:05 UTC
When you edit a page with VE in IE, CSS styles are normalized, causing dirty diffs. This is because Internet Explorer very aggressively normalizes styles, to the point where we can't tell what the original value was without some nasty hackery. In practice, this means that any time you save a page in IE, things like style="color: #ffffdd;" get normalized to style="color: rgb(255, 255, 221);", bgcolor="#FFFFDD" gets normalized to bgcolor="#ffffdd" and invalid CSS is removed. The former two are annoying dirty diffs, the latter is actual information loss (someone else can come along later and fix invalid CSS, but not if we remove it). This normalization is a bug in Internet Explorer. I'm working on a workaround where I extract the original value using an XML parser and stash it so I can restore it later. hex to rgb normalization: https://fr.wikipedia.org/?diff=107359735 bgcolor normalization: https://sv.wikipedia.org/?diff=27502354 Invalid CSS removal: https://cs.wikipedia.org/?diff=11849661
Change 160583 had a related patch set uploaded by Catrope: Work around IE's normalization of style attributes by abusing XML parsers https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160583
Change 160584 had a related patch set uploaded by Catrope: Use ve.parseXhtml() and ve.serializeXhtml() https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160584
Change 160596 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester: Use ve.parseXhtml() and ve.serializeXhtml() https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160596
Change 160597 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester: Use ve.parseXhtml() and ve.serializeXhtml() https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160597
Change 160584 merged by jenkins-bot: Use ve.parseXhtml() and ve.serializeXhtml() https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160584
Change 160596 merged by Catrope: Use ve.parseXhtml() and ve.serializeXhtml() https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160596
Change 160597 merged by Catrope: Use ve.parseXhtml() and ve.serializeXhtml() https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/160597
Deploy scheduled for 08:00 SF time tomorrow.
