Raising the equally interesting point of "why does it use tables ?"

I guess some layout work can be done here.

CSS rule definitions for .wikitable and .wikitable td were beating out those for .mw-wikihiero and .mw-wikihiero td. Added !important onto them in r95340 (trunk) to force the hieroglyphic layout table's styles to have preference.

Will probably need merge to prod branches.

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Яхмос_I still looks scary in Opera.

That table does not use the wikitable class, and the problem doesn't appear in:

• IE 6/7/8/9
• Firefox 7
• Chrome 13

Looks like it may be Opera-specific style bugs? It's adding a 'border-left' into the computed styles for the <td>s but it doesn't appear anywhere in the referenced styles.

Please open a separate bug for this, since the originally-reported issues do appear to be fixed and this looks distinct.

Reverted r95340 in r107671 in favour of fix in r107669.