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Monobook bullets are black instead of cyan in MSIE 8
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In MSIE 8 beta, <ul> list item bullets are displayed as black squares instead of the cyan squares we expect.

This may be a bug in our styles, or it may be an upstream issue.


Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/

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Bryan.TongMinh wrote:

That probably means that the list-style-image is not loaded and the list-style-type default is used instead.

Created attachment 4715
HTML test case -- with XHTML transitional doctype

Looks like list-style-image is ignored when the doctype puts it into standards mode. :P Here's a copy with the doctype...

Attached:

Created attachment 4716
Test case without doctype

...and a copy without the doctype, which renders correctly.

Attached:

ayg wrote:

The new rendering engine only kicks in for standards mode, I think. Someone apparently from MS (?) says that list-style-image support is a known bug:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2008/03/ie8_beta_1_firs.html

Both attached tests render fine with beta2. With or without
compatibility mode. Assuming it will be fixed in final too.