https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48901

MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
Yeah... I think the current behavior is pretty strange. There _is_ a link, as
you note:

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<div class="fullImageLink" id="file"><a
href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Gomek.jpg"><img
alt="File:Gomek.jpg"
src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Gomek.jpg/484px-Gomek.jpg"
width="484" height="600"></a>
---

But this link is being intentionally disabled with JavaScript. This can be a
pretty nasty trick on the user. On any device with a cursor, the image appears
clickable on-hover, but it really isn't. Oww.

If we assume that the people most worried about data usage are on devices
without JavaScript, the remnant link continues to work. Not great either.
Arguably kind of the opposite of graceful degradation.

The inconsistent behavior between desktop and mobile, and between devices with
or without JavaScript support, certainly seems like a bug to me.

Regardless of the good intention (preventing people from accidentally clicking
the image when they just want to zoom in), we're pretty clearly defying user
expectations here. File description pages had click-through to the raw image
long before December 2011. :-)

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