6.3-alpha-55703 style sheet problem?

[DigTek]

Had to go back to v6.2 due to css issue in dashboard.

[DigTek]

screen of admin dashboard - reverting to 6.2 corrects

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi there, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the report.

There is some more context on this in comment:25:ticket:58012.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 55710:

General: Restore strpos() check in wp-admin/load-styles.php.

This resolves a fatal error on PHP < 8.0, as wp-includes/compat.php is not loaded in this file, so str_starts_with() may not be available.

Follow-up to [55703].

Props dd32, flixos90, DigTek.
Fixes #58244. See #58012.

[samiamnot]

@SergeyBiryukov , how do we flag this change for removal once PHP 8.0 is the minimum supported PHP version?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to samiamnot:

how do we flag this change for removal once PHP 8.0 is the minimum supported PHP version?

There is some further discussion on this change in comment:32:ticket:58012, perhaps the correct solution would be to load wp-includes/compat.php in wp-admin/load-styles.php instead.

Once PHP 8.0 is the minimum required version, I think there would be an audit for things like this, where we can identify and remove polyfills or workarounds that are no longer relevant, see #47698 or #47699 for example.