Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-4324417-20150723111820

Dessamator wrote: TheSonofNeptune wrote: It may be a step forward to the future, but I feel as if there has to be way to make things look good on mobile, without affecting us desktop users. I don't want this to be a thing that's strongly suggested at the beginning, and then turned into something that is forced.

All phones are going to display everything like computer would within the next five years, so I see this as pointless. They're still going to keep reading content, even if the infobox looks like crap on mobile. This is like saying that newspapers should never have been made available online because everybody can read the physical copy anyway. The fact of the matter is that if the current trend persists, and it gets to a point where 90% of the userbase is using mobile devices, then designing for desktop users may eventually be "pointless" because most users are on mobile anyway. Desktop devices should have everything that mobile devices have, and if they don't within the "next five years" they will.

The main issue most users seem to have is that they don't know how to use the infobox and change its appearance to look like they want. Wikia probably launched the potbox early because they wanted to get first impressions, and as they say, more tools will be coming for them in the future to make change its look.

P.S. There's absolutely nothing wikia can do to force people to use the new potboxes. The old infoboxes are just html tables that are made to look "cute". Although they could block the use of old ones, by going overboard and blocking html tables and inline css. That isn't even a spot on comparison. Mobile phones can view like desktop, and will be able to do so with a greater ease in the future, so yes, changing infoboxes to look good on mobile, when they're basically smaller tablets, is a tad ridiculous to me.

No, designing for desktop users won't be pointless, because who do you think is doing the work to get those viewers in question? I've never met anyone who's done a some serious editing through a phone, (like a huge biography or something of that caliber).