Last modified: 2012-03-02 20:40:13 UTC
Same as title. MW 1.19
It never did in MediaWiki. I have checked 1.18, 1.19 and trunk. On which wiki have you met this issue? It must be a local modification.
I think this is my fault (r103362)... The image file history table used to call some method that would wrap the comment in (<span class="comment"> [comment here]</span>). The brackets looked kind of stupid given the image was in a table, and got removed somewhere along the line. The comment class made things italic as well I believe. With that said, I don't necessarily think this change is a bad thing. Offsetting something in italics that is already offset by a table cell seems to be not the nicest design imho.
Thanks bawolff for the explanation. I agree with you, applying a "comment" class to a table summary does not make any sense. If a wiki really wants to apply a specific style there they can use "table.filehistory > th".
