Last modified: 2011-10-28 02:07:00 UTC
From https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Tables_now_going_.22off_screen.22_.28and_no_scroll_bar_in_Internet_Explorer.29 Something has happened to the sortable table columns. They have become much wider, leading the table at Snooker world ranking points 2011/2012 to go off the side of the page. In Firefox this isn't so bad because you can at least scroll along. However, in Internet Explorer 8 it is impossible to even scroll along meaning we lose half the table. I can see the whole chart in IE8 if I set my scale to 75% (on a 1024x768 screen), but at 100% some of the columns off the screen and it doesn't have a scroll bar at the bottom to move along like in Firefox. I'm sure our table isn't the only one affected on Wikipedia if the columns have been widened (which I didn't think was necessary to be honest because the chart looked better when it was fully on the page), but by not being able to scroll along in IE it has become virtually useless. It would be great if someone could address the IE issue.
This is because the sorting indicator is slightly wider than the original one, and always put at the center right location, instead of flowing inline with the text. I don't really consider this a problem. Wide tables have accessibility problems no matter how you turn it. The more interesting question is, if IE8 is so bad at flexible width tables, is there something we can do to improve that specific issue, without impacting other browsers. ? It would also be interesting to know if this is a skin specific issue (next to being browser specific) or not.
tagging bugs for Marcus to look at
