Board Thread:New Features/@comment-2240397-20161117114915/@comment-197.218.83.207-20170110234039

TableWiz wrote: I yet to understand what "constructive" benefit this offers Sound like pretty weak arguments:
 * 1) It can only be used in tag. As "theme" is already available, this seems like duplication. I could understand if was to color-code the tags within a infobox.
 * 2) It is only accepting hex color-codes. I use the color names (Blue, Navy, etc), so to use this new feature I have to search for their hex color-codes.
 * 3) It bypass the need to setup MediaWiki CSS styling. But I see that only benefitting vandalizing and not constructive/wiki styling updating.

1) Inline css can override CSS, so people can experiment  and design templates without needing admin rights.

2) Many tools exist to add convert those. It is trivial to create a template with a users favorite colors, and simply transclude that, e.g.

3. This is and was already the case for all table based or html based templates. So there is actually far less vandalism because these aren't default attributes, and the template namespace is protected from anonymous edits.