Wikipedia talk:Tools/Navigation popups/FAQ

message: I am attempting to install popups on a mediawiki at work, but my browser's javascript console is logging an error, and I'm not seeing any popup love:
* MediaWiki: 1.5.3
* PHP: 5.1.1 (apache2handler)
* MySQL: 5.0.16-nt 
Error: addOnloadHook is not defined
Source File: http://10.1.18.225/wiki/mediawiki-1.5.3/index.php?title=User:Dpotter/popups.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s 
Line: 68
Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful.  I think that addOnloadHook is defined in wikibits.js, is that correct? dpotter 18:09, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  addOnloadHook problem 

message: I personally find Popups indispensable, so I thought it would be cool to install and enable it for all users on my wiki. I added the following to skins\MonoBook.php:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>
...but nothing happens. The code is present and correct when I view source, but there's no errors in the Javascript console in Firefox and no yellow warning icon in IE. I'm probably being dumb...
Anyone have any ideas? I've taken the liberty of putting a new section to cover this into the attached page :) --kingboyk 14:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Installing for all users on another wiki? 

message: All you have to do is go to the MediaWiki:common.js page of your wiki and put the javascript include code there.  All users import the common.js file, so it will install for all users.
I'm having a big problem though, I've got the popups working on my Wiki except for the total lack of a preview.  I've tried installed the query extension, but when I put in javascript:document.location=pg.wiki.wikibase+'/query.php' my mod_rewrite code kicks in and I get a "Query.php" titled Wiki page, but not the actual query.php file.  I've also used the line that disables the query functions, and I still get no preview.  All the links work fine, the popup just shows up with the link title and that's it.  Right now my common.js file includes the lines popupUseQueryInterface=false;
simplePopups=false;
popupStructure='lite';
popupPreviews=true;
popupOnlyArticleLinks=true; and now my pretty popups are just the title, and no more.  Can you think of a reason I'd be getting absolutely no preview? Isochronous (talk) 00:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The easy way

message: So I installed this Navpop on my Wiki (which is great)!  I just can't get the pictures to render.  I just get the message
 imagepage preview failed :( is the query.php extension installed?
I've installed the query.php extension exactly as described.  I've tried to drop it in it's own folder in the extensions folder, and create a symbolic link to it.  I've also just copied the files directly into the root of the wiki.  Still no luck.  Does anyone know what could be causing this?
previous by User:HotMonkeyAC on February 5, 2007
:* While I see the images fine, when I cursor over them I see this same message. I didn't use to; something changed a few weeks ago ... Does anyone know how to make this message go away? Keesiewonder talk 10:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * Me too, Wowlookitsjoe 03:40, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

text: *Me three...--Kkrouni/Ккроунл/ΚκρΩυνι 00:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

text: *Same here - I'm using Firefox, if that helps. --Stephen Burnett 08:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *I have the same problem, right here on Wikipedia. Image preview used to work. --Apoc2400 20:41, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

text: *I'm experiencing the same problem. I also happen to be a Firefox user? миражinred (talk) 01:59, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: see also here, ----Erkan Yilmaz (talk ?, wiki blog) 09:05, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I've almost got it! 

message: At least two of my uses of the revert function in popups today have given "broken" edit summaries. Here is the latest edit diff, the edit summary is "(Revert to the revision prior to revision $1 dated $2 by $3 using popups)". Ruhrfisch 21:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto, but more than two.  WLU 21:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with revert edit summaries  

message: Everytime I look at an image at the bottom of the page it says "imagepage preview failed :( is the query.php extension installed?" I can see the picture alright though, I've hard refreshed the page and It's still doing it, I'm using IE6 on XP SP2, thanks for the popups.:)--User:Rock2e  Talk - Contribs  09:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This appears to be a known issue. Please see here. -- Seed 2.0 19:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image links

message: I can't change my popups' color, even if I try to follow directions (Which I cannot make out very well). Can someone give me a step-by-step set of instructions? WikiPediaAid 20:36, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Color problems 

message: I have a fairly new computer - A Gateway GT5428 with Windows Vista. I have had reoccurring problems with my default browser (Internet Explorer) locking up especially when attempting to edit a page. When I first got this new machine, no issues for a while, but I started to notice the popup window "sticking" for a while. I could click out of my browser onto the desktop and click back in and get its attention, and it would let go of the link. 
Not too far back I noticed my browser just locking up totally, the type of lockup that requires hitting "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "Del" and closing explorer down. I can look at pages and even hit the "edit this page" tab as an anon with no problems there, so I knew it was my acct with the popups not working well. I did notice at this stage that the popup window would start appearing transparent with only the text of the actions showing. I learned that you can clear the cache by hitting "Ctrl" + F5 several times and the first time I used this, I was able to go in and blank out the text in my monobook.js file. I re-added the text a short time later and was back up with popups doing what it was supposed to.
A few days ago I started having the same issue where I would click the page edit tab, and my browser would lock up. I tried opening another browser and logged in, with no probs. I could explore and look at pages, check diffs, etc with no probs (other explorer window still locked up). The instant I clicked "edit this page" - lockup of browser #2. Here's the bad part - in this state you cannot remove popups from your monobook.js file as you cannot edit anymore. Monobook files have special protection so you cannot edit it without being logged in. Thankfully admins can edit them and I had to email an admin for help (remember - you can't even edit talk pages to ask for help). 
For the time being I will not reinstall popups until perhaps someone can show me a way to adjust something in my browser to work with the software. I figured others could possibly have this experience (my other computer with Windows 98SE never had this issue - granted it was old). It could be something with Vista. I thought I would share this experience. Thanks. JungleCat  Shiny!/Oohhh! 23:24, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest adjusting your browser from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Let me know if you still have problems! (IE should be supported by popups, but not as well as firefox so this is probably the simplest solution).  Lupin|talk|popups 07:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I will definitely look into Firefox. Many thanks. JungleCat  Shiny!/Oohhh! 02:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems with Windows Vista?

message: Is there a way that I can get a diff to the current version of a file in popups' history preview (like you do in the normal "history" view)? --Slashme (talk) 14:30, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "current" diff link 

message: I recently upgraded my Internet Explorer browser from version 7 to 8. At this exact point, previews ceased to appear when I hovered my cursor over Wikilinks in articles. Due to this timing and the fact that this is a brand new data processor (on which this function was working until the browser upgrade, so that fact in and of itself is not relevant, either), I can give no consideration to clearing my cache as a solution (via instructions expressly pertaining to IE 6, yet). The function remains checked. I am at a complete lost. --Ted Watson (talk) 20:44, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Would it be possible to make Popups work in IE8 as well? Or is this due to some Microsoft setting? Microsoft are now actively promoting this new browser version, so most IE users will soon be unable to use the beloved Popups... ;) Erik1980 (talk) 14:34, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

text: Microsoft is now pushing out IE8 through Windows Update, so this problem is probably becoming pervasive.  IE8's highly-touted "Accelerator" function seems to be suppressing this wonderful app. But turning off the Accelerator function while keeping IE8 hasn't brought back the navigation popups. Can the creator of this app tweak it to get out from underneath IE8?  13:57, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suddenly no previews when hovering over Wiki-links 

message: Would it be possible to make an exception [standard] for the alternate text displayed by the ImageMap extension?   — C M B J   17:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ImageMap extension

message: While I never have a problem in Firefox, these work only like half the time in Chrome. Anyone know why? AaronY (talk) 17:27, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chrome 

message: I would like to use the popups while on a computer, but not while browsing in desktop mode on my smartphone or tablet. Is there a possibility for the tool to detect which media you are accessing wikipedia with and enable / disable to match? The main issue seems to me to be matching between "mouseover" while on a computer and whatever corresponding "touch-over" that is used on devices without input mechanisms such as a mouse or keyboard. Mr Ernie (talk) 15:21, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You could load it from your common.js instead of from the gadget settings, and encapsule it in whatever detection of mobile devices you like. --nenntmichruhigip (Diskussion) 10:41, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Desktop Mode on Mobile 

message: The graphical metaphor of stacked popups leads naturally to the expectation that as long as one is hovering over one popup, all popups under it will remain on screen.  So I was surprised to see the first popup disappear when I went down a third level.  Then I realized the retention criterion was that a popup remains on screen only so long as the cursor is over it.  Is it too much to hope there is a configuration parameter to retain all popups overlayed by other popups? Jim Bowery (talk) 05:18, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retain overlayed popups?