User blog comment:CzechOut/How Portable Infoboxes Can Change Your Style/@comment-1142365-20160708232030/@comment-188432-20160712010021

I seriously take your point, Speedit, about the pseudo. I only wish that it was more widely accepted by browsers at this time. It's problematic because it's not supported by IE 11, and only in varying ways by many other browsers. If the world were as I personally wished, and everyone used Safari, we'd be good to go. :) But it's still a great point that I hope we're going to be talking about in the future.

As for your latest comments, Callofduty4, this article is not an act of deception. It's not propaganda. Nor is it in any way a treatise on the virtues of portable infoboxes. Convincing you or anyone to use PIs was -- quite emphatically -- never the point of this post. I wrote it for people who had already decided they were going to implement PIs.

Equally, talking about the styling possible for infoboxes on Mercury is just not what this article is about.

That's why the images come from desktop. That's why there's specific discussion of matching the colors of one's infoboxes to the top navigation bar. That's why the post itself never uses the word "Mercury" or the phrase "mobile skin". And that's why your comments, while useful enough in themselves, are decidedly off topic to this particular discussion.

See, I think I'm genuinely writing to a more specific point than you imagine. All I'm trying to say is this:


 * Converting to portable infoboxes lets users re-imagine their wikis. Since users will need to do some type of CSS work to convert to PIs, they may as well stop to think about how the new boxes fit into the overall scheme of their desktop look. They may even find themselves seizing the opportunity to get rid of a lot of "code cruft" that's built up over the years. And they might even help a huge number of their readers out by implementing reasonable color contrast ratios.