Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-131168-20150826194926

I never paid attention to this until the "Non-portable infoboxes" thing popped up in Insights, so I am a bit out of the loop...

I like that this is pretty easy to use. I decided to try remaking one of our current templates in this format today, and while cosmetically it's lacking in its default form, it was pretty easy to get all the same information displayed.

I like that it's simple to have a section not appear when no data is given.

I like how it can show the same information in either two-column or one-column version depending on where you're viewing.

I half like the idea of image resizing being done automatically. On the one hand, in many cases it's better than being forced to pick some fixed size that doesn't turn out quite the same in the various layouts Wikia uses. On the other hand, stretching everything to fill the width isn't always the best option. In fact it was just a few weeks ago I needed to change some infoboxes to stop this, since narrow images were making the infoboxes inappropriately tall. With regular image resizing it's possible to set an upper bound for both width and height. Maybe more appropriate for this application would be the ability to set some height-relative-to-infobox-width ratio limit.

I don't like that CSS is needed to change the look much, whereas in the older style it's possible to just tell it |color = #1A4B26 and do whatever is needed with it.

Lack of tabber in mobile still hurts--but it's not really MORE of a problem with this new infobox, just a continuing one. Well, except the tabber seems left-aligned rather than centered now. I know using tabber hurts the portability which is behind these new infoboxes in general--but as long as there's no alternative, that's the way it's going to be. If we could tell a group of things to be tabbed as easily as we could tell them to be placed in a single row, so much the better.

I wish I could tell titles, headers, and individual rows to be centered rather than left-justified. Maybe CSS could help for titles and headers? Not sure if one could affect the way only certain data rows are handled.