User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-126761-20150519140106/@comment-25408491-20150519143720


 * "Adding a preference wouldn't really make sense, to be honest - it's best for articles to look consistent across devices. If users all see articles differently, it's difficult to make articles look good for everyone."

This is the logic that gets you the current XBox 360 interface which is utterly terrible for anyone who actually uses a controller to navigate a game console UI. Why is the NXE the way it is though? Because some bright spark wanted it to look like Windows 8.

Meanwhile, almost every game developer on the platform has ensured that their UI was made to function with a controller - including probably the best recent invention in video-games control schemes : the radial menu.


 * "I disagree that it's best for Wikia to look consistent across all devices. My laptop has a larger view, no touchscreen, and a large, physical keyboard; don't you think that I interface with it differently than I interface with my smartphone or tablet? And don't you think that different interfacing methods require different layouts?"

Vektor0 is absolutely right. There is no logic to having wikia display identically on every device.