User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-24844472-20150525075654/@comment-66.249.93.226-20150527214501

Nobody is suggesting a tablet is a desktop. Wikia have simply chosen to develop one skin for both tablets and desktop computers as opposed to building a separate skin for each. The truth is that the line between desktop and tablet is blurring. Touch enabled netbooks, "Yoga" tablets, Microsoft surfaces could all be classed as a laptop or a tablet. Using your analogy, yes you have bikes and cars, but you also have electric bikes and motorbikes to confuse things. Add to that pickup trucks which sit between a car and a lorry. It makes sense (in my opinion at least) for Wikia to develop one skin for all devices. Which is why I think having a separate mobile web is a big mistake - where we once had 3.5 inch phones and 10" tablets, now big phones and small tablets have blurred the lines between these devices.

I disagree with this update. I feel that people with big monitors should be allowed to enjoy them and editors should be trusted to make articles look good on various screen sizes. I personally don't read Wikia for extended periods of time. I'd prefer to have more space available to appreciate tables and photographs. Horizontally scrolling a table really isn't that bad in my opinion. But one cannot deny that lines have blurred. Which is why I think Wikia have shot themselves in the foot for not including smart phones in the Oasis skin.