Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150723115202

TheSonofNeptune wrote:

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). “I’m not convinced people want to watch movies on a tiny little screen,” Jobs said.

More importantly people aren't really aware of what mobile means:

"Mobile computing is human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage."

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My comment was meant to point out how ridiculous it is to claim that desktop users have some sort of priority over mobile users. A computer is a computer, whether it is part of a fridge, on a phone, a watch or glasses. Most people in the IT industry know that  obsessing over a particular form factor is a waste of time. The best IT solutions are designed to be flexible and implemented in as many devices as possible.

So yes, one can conceivably create a whole biography or something of that caliber on a mobile device (or phone), one could even use voice input to write the majority of the article if one so wished. The problem is not the inability to do so, it is that current interfaces need to be optimized for those purposes.

P.S. Even on desktop devices the markup/wikitext used to create those infoboxes are utterly unreadable and in many cases unmaintainable. So this is yet another reason why the infoboxes have been improved.