Village Pump (technical) - Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8

My user scripts work on Firefox and Chrome, but almost all of them don't work on Internet Explorer 8, which is the browser installed on school computers. I tried enabling the JavaScript Standard Library in gadgets, but it did nothing. Here's a list of my enabled gadgets:

• Disable access keys
• Open external links in a new tab/window
• Twinkle
• Suppress display of the fundraiser banner
• "Ask a question" feature for the Wikimedia Foundation's "Teahouse" project
• Reference tooltips
• HotCat
• wikEd
• Yet Another AFC Helper Script
• Form for filing disputes at the dispute resolution noticeboard
• Add an link for the lead section of a page
• Change the "new section" tab text to instead display the much narrower "+".
• Disable animations in the interface.

I especially need Twinkle, seeing how I use it for basically everything. Is it possible to fix this, or do I just have to use Chrome portable? ❤ Yutsi / ( 偉特 ) 13:09, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

For the last couple or three weeks (probably since the last MW upgrade), I've been having lots of delays in IE8; I'm always getting the "Stop running this script? A script on this page is causing your web browser to run slowly..." message, even at pages such as Guam or Commons:Special:Upload. Nyttend (talk) 13:37, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Probably unrelated to the above problem. You may want to start your own thread of discussion. --Izno (talk) 13:55, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

You're SOL on at least Twinkle. See WP:TWINKLE. IE in general is notorious for being a special case in both Javascript and CSS, and it's only with the newest of versions that developers are able to do something useful with it without devoting hours of work for small functionality. --Izno (talk) 13:55, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Probably unrelated, but you might have to upgrade your browser to Internet Explorer 9 if you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista Service Pack 2. Otherwise, good luck. --George Ho (talk) 15:18, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Yutsi is using a school computer, so probably not in a position to change browsers.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 17:09, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

this may or may not solve this specific problem, but it might help: MediaWiki:Geonotice.js which is loaded by everyone, contains an extra comma on line #31. this does not bother the sane browsers, but it bugs the hell out of IE. if one of the sysops can delete this comma, Yutsi will be able to sail on until he/she will encounter the next problem... peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 19:28, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's this one. It's been like that for weeks; people removing the last notice don't seem to remove the comma from the one that becomes the last notice. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:37, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

it would help if one or more of the sysops would occasionally browse the site using IE8 and IE9, esp. in "compatibility mode". what you want to do is go to Tools => Internet Options => Advance tab, and there, under the "Browsing" section, you want to mark "Display notification about every script error". after that, you want to browse enwiki with "Compatibility mode" on. it really doesn't matter if this is a despicable browser - one can't ignore the fact that it is used by huge potion of the readers and editors, so the site should better work correctly with this browser. it is also a good idea to repeat this exercise from time to time when logged out, to make sure anons do not run into problems. peace - קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 19:52, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Agh - a thousand apologies for letting that one slip in. Thanks for noticing & fixing it! Andrew Gray (talk) 20:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)