Board Thread:New Features/@comment-2240397-20161117114915/@comment-4522253-20170111001855

TableWiz wrote: I yet to understand what "constructive" benefit this offers Good of you to ask, as this feature went live today. The benefit is primarily to wikis with an uncommon but not rare use case; they style many of their article's infoboxes individually. As an example, they style a television character's infobox to match their color set on the program. There are a handful of such communities. Prior to the native introduction of this feature, they've used a workaround involving JavaScript which dynamically repaints the colors of the box. We decided to make this a native feature instead.
 * 1) It can only be used in tag. As "theme" is already available, this seems like duplication. I could understand if was to color-code the tags within a infobox.
 * 2) It is only accepting hex color-codes. I use the color names (Blue, Navy, etc), so to use this new feature I have to search for their hex color-codes.
 * 3) It bypass the need to setup MediaWiki CSS styling. But I see that only benefitting vandalizing and not constructive/wiki styling updating.
 * 1) This is intentional, as theme was not ultimately practical for dozens or hundreds of themes that only affected a single page. Kudos to the communities that did that anyway. Individual groups were determined to be rarely in need of such coding.
 * 2)  We're using hex codes for now. We are open to the idea of expanding the feature to other possible input types if there is sufficient demand.
 * 3) This was largely intentional. Many of the affected communities would be overwhelmed with the demands on their administrators were this not left in the hands of individual contributors. As the scope is limited to hex color codes, and no other types of styling, the potential for abuse was considered low.