User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-3388044-20120920052409

I have a little confusion that perhaps someone can clear up for me. As I understand this blog, the "border" area -- the area where the background graphic is visible down the sides of the screen from top to bottom -- will be decreasing in size?! Or is my math wrong? The page content is increasing by 40px, with an extra 30px for the siderail and an extra 10px for the article content. Where's that extra 10px coming from? Is it being taken from that "border" area I referred to above?

The reason I'm asking is twofold:
 * On a PC with a 1920px-wide screen, I use the browser in kiosk mode (i.e., full-screen mode) and then zoom the window contents to 175%, which precisely removes the serves-no-purpose graphics background, and fills the screen with the all-that-really-matters page content (i.e., article content plus margins and siderail)
 * Wikia's widening the systemwide menu and the toolbar to occupy all of the width that includes the graphical borders will make this no longer feasible, especially since
 * the most important part of the global nav is the part at the extreme right edge
 * large portions of the customizable toolbar beyond the page content will also not be accessible to those zooming the page to the limits of the page content.
 * On an iPad, this is an even greater issue
 * iPad users do not want to use the mobile skin since the iPad browser presents Wikia's pages beautifully, as is, in the current Oasis skin
 * BUT, as it stands, iPad users must zoom the page to the limits of the page content (i.e., to the point where the graphical borders are eliminated) in order to be able to read the screen.
 * When they do so in future, they will lose large portions of the widened global nav and the widened customizable toolbar.

I think all of the systemwide changes to the Oasis skin scheduled for October 3 are terrific. I have no issue with them whatsoever. However, the customizable toolbar is probably the single best component of the Oasis skin. It is truly a great innovation. I use it constantly, for at least 90% of my moving through a given wiki. But, it will be rendered essentially unusable for those who zoom their screens, and/or all iPad users, if it is widened beyond its current width.

I would like to ask that Wikia seriously reconsider the widening of the global nav and the customizable toolbar to extend beyond their current widths. While there may be possible branding benefits, their width expansion seems to yield no user benefit.

Thank you.

— Spike  Toronto  05:24, September 20, 2012 (UTC)