Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-4522253-20150612175431

Dessamator wrote: FishTank wrote: Dessamator wrote: This makes one wonder where this will leave the infoboxbuilder. If the new potBoxes are used the infoboxbuilder becomes unnecessary, especially if it comes with advanced GUI tools. Anyway, chances are that the builder wasn't widely adopted so it is probably a non-issue considering that it is just a module at its core. There's always going to be more than one way to do things, and more than one reason to have alternatives. That's true. But chances are that wikia will eventually (in some distance future) deprecate the infobox class, which the infobox builder likely uses. That will render it unusable or it'll likely become awfully mangled in the mobile view. Or it could even make it mangled in the desktop view, that's one evil way to quickly speed adoption :).

Of course we could always rewrite the back-end to support the new infobox syntax, but in its current state it is headed to oblivion. Which, not coincidentally, I started doing yesterday. Also adding HTML5 microdata support and per-item CSS classes while I'm in there. :-)