Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-203328-20180607165314/@comment-195370-20180607220856

No surprise; web designers have spent significant time learning the ins and outs of css coding for modern webpages. The whole point of Mediawiki is to make it fully accessible to users to encourage collaboration. Web designers are right in stating that tables shouldn't be used for design, however I'm not a web designer, I'm a Mediawiki editor and this site is powered by a derivative of that software. Mediawiki tables can be an elegant, simple and powerful method for displaying data interaction for detailed systems. On a desktop browser.

FFXIclopedia was created before mobile was a thing, and five years before Wikia bought it. It was designed for desktops with Monobook in mind, but has been updated for the most part to work with the vastly reduced screen real-estate that Oasis provides.

Mercury is fine for wikis that provide articles that consist of prose and lists in glorious monochrome, broken up by the occasional jpg. FFXIclopedia, and other video game sites, have many articles that represent data interaction in a visual form outside of the games, in order that their users can easily understand the many complex systems that such huge games (eg MMOs/RPGs) provide in a clear and concise manner.

Mercury just cannot cope with this. I'd refer you outside of FFXIclopedia to WoWWiki's pages on crafting recipes, item upgrades, and other such data-involved aspects of the game, which are quite definitely also a dire user experience. Non-FANDOM wikis dealing with the same games don't touch mobile skins for exactly this reason.

I'd recommend any user of these sites to just VIEW FULL SITE and not look back. It's a crying shame that Mercury can't be disabled on request though, as it means that new users landing there are greeted with an experience that's not fit for purpose, which in our case has propagated negative feedback among our community.

If ignoring mobile were truly our prerogative, we'd be able to disable it completely, and then issues like Zenoxio's above wouldn't occur.