Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-5917596-20150723130745

Fewfre wrote: Edit:I also wish you guys would make markup for " " and " " (or something similar). Even with infoboxes, there's times that certain things (such as an image) shouldn't be included on mobile, and while I can use a CSS hack to make stuff hidden on the mobile skin, it doesn't work on apps. the biggest example I have for things I like to hide are parts of complicated templates, as well as "edit" buttons on templates. An example of something that can be nice to "show" on mobile only is an tag to separate things on a template that would otherwise run together horribly on mobile. On some wikis there's also section on the main page that are nice to hide (or only show) on mobile (don't need to worry about this on apps since no front page, but still useful for mobile skin).

Glad to see somebody else would like to see Extension:MobileDetect installed on wikia &#10004;

It would fix more issues then the PortableInfobox will. There is more content on a wiki then the Infobox.

I'm not going to be reading a wiki on mobile if only the Infobox content is readable all content needs to be.

Personal don't get the obsession with the Infoboxes as I not going to stay long on a wiki on a mobile device if the only content that is clearly readable is the Infobox.

A more flexible alternative to Extension:MobileDetect would be another possibility a text tag for example
 * Display on all devices
 * Display this text only on mobile devices
 * This text will only display on desktop or devices set to view full website
 * But I don't see such a plugin ever getting made.

I would be happy with "Extension:MobileDetect" at least I could then hide templates that don't display well on mobile.

I would note that the idea that the Infobox is just for basic information is force that maybe how they started out but they have gone way beyond that now or some would not have such complex code.

If they were still only used for basic Info on the wikis' subject then there would be no need for a PortableInfobox as text and an image would display fine on all devices.

No matter how Portable wikia makes the Infoboxes they will not display right on a mobile device if the content within them uses complex code and wiki's mobile code can't translate it into readable content then the PortableInfoboxes will fail just like the current Infoboxes.

Basically wikia need us to stop being imaginative in the use of Infoboxes and only use them as they define them, sorry wikia don't see that happening it's the imaginative use of all parts of wikia that keep readers coming back.