Sortable headers aren't shown in Minerva as it overrides 'content' which loads 'mediawiki.page.ready' which loads tablesorter. I assume this is deliberate?

We could mirror this behaviour in VE but currently there is no programmatic way to ask the skin if it supports sortable tables, so it would just be a hack.

CC @Jdlrobson

In T205945#4633499, @Esanders wrote:

Sortable headers aren't shown in Minerva as it overrides 'content' which loads 'mediawiki.page.ready' which loads tablesorter. I assume this is deliberate?

Captured in T111565

@Jdlrobson Is that going to be fixed any time soon, or should we come up with a hack to hide the icons?

T111565 was marked as 8 points (risky) so we're waiting for more time to fix that, so I'd guess not any time soon.
A short term solution that would also help that work would be to use skinStyles to blank those icons

Change 466609 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Reduce specificity of wikitable overrides

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/466609

I've just fixed the style specificity conflict, so that the right padding for the icons is retained. This means we will see icons in edit mode and not read mode, but as there is a task to fix read mode, I feel this is the better fix.

After:

Change 466609 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue@master] Reduce specificity of wikitable overrides

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/466609