User blog comment:Fandyllic/Wikia mobile skin - What’s wrong with it?/@comment-24473195-20160524211155

Mobile development is incredibly painful. Even in wikipedia where they do have a mobile.css / mobile.js there are still a lot of pages that simply render very badly. There is also a huge list of backlog of bugs related to mobile rendering despite the fact that admins there have far more control than we do here.

One thing that is always missing in this kind of posts is performance, which is the main problem of mobile sites, and another is accessibility. Perhaps 99% of users are simply not equipped to handle mobile issues and require considerable background knowledge before tacking these things.

Users may want to add all their graphical features b ut there are thousands of feature phones that can't handle newer html5 or simply large amounts of content despite having the ability to access the internet. There are many pages  that simply don't show up in some devices. While documentation is a good thing, a more intuitive user interface for creation of content with built-in context-based online help is far superior.

In my opinion, the way forward is complete removal of all inline styling, provision of alternate tools for styling content without use of the Mediawiki namespace,  and development of tools / content widgets to facilitate the creation of content. I do however entirely agree that unpredictable behavior is a big issue because people often can't differentiate bugs and from intented behaviour.