User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-208566-20150519182632/@comment-126761-20150519185757


 * So, tell me this: If other websites can have separate skin for mobile users, why can't Wikia? Because I've viewed many wikis on my phone while I'm out and away and never had an issue with the layout. Who, exactly, is giving you all this data that is so terrible and why punish your editors when you could just make a more efficient mobile-only skin?

We do have a separate skin for the smallest devices, but tablet users (and other medium-small devices) were stuck in a pretty awkward position.

We do not expect users to code two (or even three) different versions of a page for visitors. You should be able to write it once, and be reasonably confident that it will appear nicely across multiple devices.

The previous situation where a lot of pages are designed against the very widest of screens was causing increasing problems as more people started browsing using alternate devices. The issues that several people are describing were already a problem for many users - it just wasn't obvious.