https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15403





--- Comment #8 from SharkD <[email protected]>  2008-12-27 06:28:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't like that "more verbose" alt text. We use a simple &darr; on purpose.
> Alt text displays on the page when the image cannot be found. Your "Sort in
> ascending order." and "Sort in descending order." is quite large. In fact, far
> larger than 90% of the header columns that you will find in tables.
> Did you even attempt to look at what the page output was when the browser 
> could
> not find the image? If you bother to, I expect that you will see that this
> stretches header columns and makes them almost impossible to read.

If the image dimensions are specified explicitely via CSS, then the length of
the ALT text will have zero effect on the table size.

-Mike


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