Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150805095647

I justed tested out the potboxconverter recently enabled here, and though it seems good, but there are a couple of things that seemed to have been overlooked.

1. Variables within "style" attribute being used as parameters style="text-align:center; background:#ccf; Suggestion: Make the parser ignore all these tags inside the style= quotes.

2. Classes. Same as 1, same suggestion

3. It seems to be picking up non-infoboxes: Template:User:Shining-Armor?action=edit It seems that anything that simulates 2 columns and rows is being picked up as an infobox. This may be deliberate to make people use an infobox in cases where they would always use a table.

4. I think when the converter creates a draft it would probably be nice to preview how the template would look with at least one page that uses it in case it exists.

Suggestion: Much like the app here http://infoboxpreview.appspot.com/. Also, it would be good to get some links for how to style it. Maybe some "more attractive" style, along with the sample code for it.

5. It is hard to know what are the benefits of the conversion.

Suggestion: It would also be interesting to see what were the savings in terms of coding required, e.g. a message like "The portable infobox has reduced the letters/chars in the previous infobox by 90% (3000bytes → 300bytes)."

Add a link to how it would look on mobile,e.g. Template:Infobox/Draft?useskin=wikiamobile

6. It may be a good idea to collapse the code showing how to use it if it is too big. That template has around 40 rows, there's no need to see that much.