User talk:Capefeather

Re: Table formatting
Typically, the MediaWiki version should not affect the table rendering display, and 1.12 isn't really an "outdated version" (it is an older version, yes, but is still one of the three "Current Versions" listed on the MediaWiki homepage).

I haven't had a chance to look at which tables are not showing up right, but if I were to hazard a guess, a typical situation is that users expect this wiki to have the same CSS rules defined as Wikipedia's, when it does not. The difference in CSS rules can greatly affect the display of various elements of the page.

A second common situation is the difference in Tidy implementation. The closest simple explanation is like two different printers try to fix your typos differently for you when you want to print out an essay you typed. So if you print your essay using one printer, certain typos gets "fixed" one way, whereas using a different printer "fixes" the typos a different way. Wikia's Tidy implementation is, I believe, slightly different from Wikipedia's, and that has often caused very messed up pages in the past when other users try copying articles from Wikipedia.

If you can point me to an example of what you want to do not working, I'll take a look and investigate if the cause is any of the two above issues, or if in fact 1.13 has implemented new syntax/rendering methods that breaks on older versions of MediaWiki, or if there is some other cause for the tables you want to not display right. -User:PanSola(talk/history) 18:55, 4 September 2008 (UTC)