https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30270

--- Comment #2 from [email protected] 2011-08-16 05:34:55 UTC ---
They just space things out unnecessarily. I can't think of a reason why they
would be necessary, and that's why they're unnecessary. 

I haven't thoroughly tested all browsers, but I see no tricks in this CSS that
would lead me to believe they are compatibility hacks. They have pretty
consistent effects on all browsers as far as I know. The only thing I'm
changing is padding and margins. I don't touch anything else.

If you need a screenshot of the effects, I suppose I could make them. You can
see here how the gallery does not line up with the left edges of other things
on the wiki page (text, images, various boxes, etc):

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Gallery_syntax

Also notice that caption text does not line up with left edge of each gallery
image. My changes remove all that extra margin and padding so everything lines
up, and caption text is not packed any tighter than necessary. I see no reason
why the text should not extend to the left and right edges of each image, and
the gallery as a whole should not extend to the left and right edges of the
usable wiki page space. 

The gallery is the only thing that has this extra padding and margins, as far
as I know. It's unnecessary, inconsistent, and causes misalignment of the
gallery, and premature wrapping of caption text. 

I'm sure whoever put all that in originally thought that it looked better. In
some cases, I agree that it does, but all other cases, it doesn't.

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