Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150602155237

This seems like a lot of unnessacary work, just to customize this new template. If I'm understanding correctly, this bit of code is just for the headings. So if I wanted to add some more customization to various features of the template, I would need to type up more html(?) for each specific feature. Making templates was hard enough to learn, now you want to throw in more coding. Personally, I would prefer staying as far away from CSS as I can, while still having the ability to style templates anyway I want. That is simply a result of added customization the person wanted. But wanting to stay away from CSS while still styling templates, is like wanting to take a shower without getting wet. You can't have one without the other. Of course there are tools to make it as painless as possible but in the end you're doing the same thing.

Anyway, I will concede to one point. Currently, the only way to style these templates is by changing the Special:CSS page. What this means is that ultimately only admins can affect the infobox styles directly, regular users can change their user css but never the infoboxes. This takes away control from the masses and gives it to the very few.

This in my opinion is a major oversight. If we consider a wiki where the admins/bureaucrats are absent, it would mean that they are stuck using a default infobox styles or simply use the old style templates. At the very least there should be a way to have some preset styles that allow css changes by non-admins.

Maybe there could be customized infobox CSS style transclusion from Dev.wikia.com or another central repository.