Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150929231108/@comment-1853435-20151204193307

Dessamator wrote: ReapTheChaos wrote:

Dessamator wrote:

But still, I agree with you. The old table based infoboxes were intimidating to me when I first saw them, and unlike most users I know how to develop software from scratch. Anyway, there is a "somewhat basic" page here. If that's the dumbed down version then count me out, it lost be when it started talking about CSS and themes.

We'll stick with the ones we have, they look perfectly fine on mobile phones anyway so I don't know why they're pushing this so hard. I just wish there was a way to set up those Insights to ignore them. There is a somewhat better page here w:c:p:Infobox/Basics. I can try to create a simpler page for styling but  there currently isn't a shortcut for it unless you want plain simple pages. That is much like wanting to use advanced calculus and algebra without knowing basic arithmetic. "they look perfectly fine on mobile phones anyway so I don't know why they're pushing this so hard."

They appear " perfectly fine" on some mobile phones because wikia has some hacks in place to make it so. One day, wikia might decide that the hacks aren't worth the development time they waste on it, and eventually remove them all, resulting in a similar event as this .

Unless you've tested them on more than a dozen mobile phones with different form factors your assessment is certainly inaccurate. A mobile phone is not only a smartphone, it is also a feature phone, a device with two screens, and  theoretically even a smartwatch can make calls. A mobile device has even stranger form factors  as is the case of  a Google glass device, ipod, and so on. Well that basics page is definitely easy to understand, but where I'm getting lost is on themes and CSS, I'm assuming that's where you make changes like color, text and styling of the box. I'm not looking for anything too elaborate, we use one basic style of infobox on our pages. I'd just like to create one that looks close to what we have now.