Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-4189499-20150523112000

I have finished matching the BCW infobox with these new tags via CSS. The two look pretty much identical, which proves that for a regular style infobox, these tags work fine as a replacement for pure wikitext infoboxes. Sure, it's a little more work to get there, where the CSS page ends up being a good deal longer than it previously was, but the result looks great in desktop view. And then there's the mobile view.

Because of the dedicated tags, the view in mobile is much more beautiful than it was using a wikitable. Because of the whole CSS-stripping aspect of mobile, using a regular infobox table looked OK, but you didn't have the title and headers stand out as headers and titles should. The tag infobox, on the other hand, is nicely styled with appropriately emphasised title and headings. It just looks really nice. I even think the non-tabular form of the infobox works on the mobile because it allows the use of more space per line on the already small screen. Only thing I have to say, though, is that there is less information available before expanding the infobox with the new format than the old. Using my test infoboxes on my phone (iPhone 4), the original infobox displays 6 information fields, which is all bar the bottom row. On the new infobox however, only two data fields are shown before expansion, leaving 5 more covered. I think more should be available on page load, like how it is on the Wikipedia mobile site. Preferably completely open in my opinion. What, by the way, is the idea behind collapsing so much of it?

So, in conclusion, I like the direction you're going in with the tag infobox. I wouldn't be moving the template over to BCW yet, because I would like to see what changes are made to the tags before finishing their beta first, but I think I will in the end if the idea is kept. More development still needs to be done, for example to accommodate previous/next features for episode infoboxes, but this is a good start.

If you're interested, the infoboxes I was testing with can be found w:c:imamadmad:Infobox test. The top one is the original and the bottom is the new one made with the tags.