Thread:Fandyllic/@comment-27075564-20170724155029/@comment-1077307-20170730162836

This will no longer be an issue in a matter of hours. But it wont stop someone from altering the layout engine for a custom letterboxing if they want later.

The issue is that at this time someone would have had to hack a lot of css and common js to make this work at all, and that requirement will evaporate completely before I'm done. I just wanted to let you know what you were seeing on the demo at that moment.

There is a natural form of letter boxing that has and will occur regardless, as opened map view never fits the users browser window client. The area of the hard-coded final shape of full map is different. The light-box code already makes sure the bottom doesn't go off of the client area, but the users window could be square or portrait and not fit anyway. The underlying layout is just based on a static design rule where the maps have to be added to the wiki with a lot of rules, and this is because there was before no way to communicate any differently. Communication has already been added in this redo of Maps, for Settings and for Markers, now I'm adding it for map files, so this design rule is no longer necessary, if they don't want it to be. The design rules from before are what required all of the image maps and css and editing of js files which are far too high of a requirement for most wikis especially because of complexity of this type of facility, which is clearly the case after seasoned admins and staff and dedicated wiki builders like Mechemik who are clearly capable of being total technical admins, want to tear their hair out. :)

So there are other better worlds and ways, and thankfully there are enough common facilities in Wikia wikis that the only requirement other then placing the files would be turning on Extenton.Variables. Id consider doing Lua but I know lots of people have never even seen the Lua backend tools for templates. And its not that big of a deal to make some simple easy to understand idiomatic wiki template pieces that people can manipulate how they are used to doing to run Maps themselves.