Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150910144330

FishTank wrote: I've spent a lot of time with the Portable Infobox team yesterday. I can address a couple of these. It does not only include PIBs. It has an algorithm that detects classic AND anything in "Template:" that CONTAINS a PIB through transclusion (including /doc, which is a bug). That's coming to documentation. Don't expect RTE to be going anywhere until VE is complete enough that Power Users are willing to use it instead. I'll pass on the suggestion for a visual indication in VE that the function is there, and the "more infoboxes" link to Insights, and the sorting (which will probably end up being in alphabetical order). Including Drafts is intended. I think it already good enough, the Wikimedia VisualEditor team has made great strides with adding tools. The biggest drawback to visual editor is possibly the performance on huge pages. Beyond that  the current version of MW VisualEditor is already far superior rich text editor. It even supports editing rendered graphs natively.

In the case of improvements that benefit portable infoboxes, they have already started developing widgets that can be added to templates (e.g. datepicker, comboboxes), and possibly soon to infoboxes directly, see  ,,.