User blog comment:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content/@comment-86.161.112.209-20170505161340/@comment-1370845-20170511081219


 * 1) You can also switch to Monobook here.
 * 2) Obviously it needs replacing. But you are again trivialising how easy is it to make a skin that accounts for potentially thousands of different template designs and renders them fine. Separating of content from presentation is the way forward, hence why things like PI are needed. Note this isn't limited to Fandom - Reddit is right now disabling custom CSS on subreddits in favor of other styling tools because they can't get it to work with its mobile skin or its apps, an option Fandom could've easily gone for and haven't.
 * 3) Depends solely on what the wikitext template was before. In many cases, the wikitext templates on mobile can look abysmal. It makes sense to provide all communities with one syntax that is easier for new startup wikis to adopt, separates content from presentation, and is easy to interpret. It not only helps mobile display, it helps things like providing data through text-to-speech, and helps with whatever the next form factor is, ie means we don't have to recode infoboxes every single time the next form factor comes and our phone/PC/tablet/whatever becomes redundant as an internet browser in favor of something else.