Board Thread:New Features/@comment-2240397-20161117114915/@comment-24473195-20161119111042

Cqm wrote: @Nanaki, @Dessamator: Ordinarily I wouldn't mind inline styles, but this is the first time in years there's been any concession after claiming it's bad for performance and even going to the lengths of writing a blog about it. Why the sudden change of heart now? Well, nothing is written in stone yet. This thread is probably meant to highlight the pros and cons of such an approach, and they may simply not implement anything at all, as indicated in the main post.

>  I'm not sure if the game guide apps are still a thing, but last I looked they offered both light and dark themes. This looks more like we're taking the portability out of infoboxes again.

It is not a portability issue, it is actually an accessibility issue. To use an analogy, watching a new colored movie on an old black and white TV would not magically give it color nor would it prevent people from watching it. It is also quite common to see many desktop sites / wikis with horrible color combinations (Color combinations hell). In any case, it is entirely possible to have a GUI or backend that simply rejects color combinations that make it hard or impossible to read, e.g. (white text on white background).

This was entirely impossible with wikitext based infoboxes.