<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia not showing properly in Apple's Dictionary[/b]
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Apple's Dictionary application is useful for grabbing information about items, either by looking them up in the dictionary or thesaurus, ...



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Here's a fixed link.

Another big win for the Usability Team and their "Vector" skin!

Heh, I expected to see something more like the Cupertino effect. Nothing wrong with experimenting with new skins, but changing the default was a really stupid idea.

Apple (or whoever) can fix their shit easily by adding &useskin=monobook to their urls (but they shouldn't have needed to).

Human readers will have a harder time because if they follow a link to another page the skin will reset to "vector", unless one is a registered user with preferences set, whereas most readers aren't.

One modest little "usability initiative" (short of reverting the entire steaming pile of change-for-its-own-sake) would be to append the same &useskin=whatever to all outbound links on a page if/when such a parameter is present in the current url. If they're worried about page-render/caching issues they can implement this as trivial javascript function and enable it for everybody via wikibits.js or somesuch. Somebody will think them for it later.

I'd give it a year or two before (thanks to the progressive dancing pigs initiative) you need to download special plug-ins just to edit.

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