Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24473195-20150929155259

SethFu wrote: If you have several elements that belong in a common group but where many of them can be blank and you don't want them to show up, having a rowsize argument would be convenient. Using different groups you have to arbitrarily make the cut after, say, 3 possible elements, but if some are unspecified you can end up with rows of 1 or 2 or 3 elements breaking your table's symmetry. To be honest, I don't see how such a simple parameter would affect code readability; it would be similar to using colspan on a table.

P.S. How many posts before a thread gets split? My laptop is coughing up blood. Colspans are not without their problems . Personally, whenever possible I avoid them like the plague. In fact, wikitables don't particularly handle colspans all that well (sorting doesn't work),  there are certain things it simply messes up, and doesn't display properly on mobile or even desktops for example.

My point was that much like how gallery was designed, wikia has the opportunity to do the same for the infobox markup. Adding too much stuff, not keeping to certain guidelines, and allowing feature creep will make it worse than wikitext.

"P.S. How many posts before a thread gets split? My laptop is coughing up blood."

Agreed. Some of us have moved to the w:c:infobox wiki to reduce the load here.