Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment-24409505-20150604131404

Dessamator wrote:

Sharing templates is really a nice approach to reducing time spent creating these. But styling won't be carried over when these pages are imported. For example, while the templates can be previewed in the templates.wikia, different styles won't be visible. Short of asking a templates.wikia admin to add a bunch of "stylish preset css", anyone looking at the default infobox theme would probably think that it looks particularly "old fashioned".

Sharing templates is indeed a good idea. However, I'm a bit puzzled why you consider it a bad thing that the styling won't be carried over when someone uses a shared template. I remember your talk about the different "layers" here. According to your logic, the templates shared on Templates Wiki are only the layer that contains what kind of data is stored. Users who copy over a Book template don't do it for the colors, fonts and other styling of the template in Templates Wiki (or are bothered by how "old-fashioned" it looks), they only care about the ready made code they can quickly use on book pages. The styling itself they can copy over from any wiki that is using the Portable Infobox and apply it to their own Book infobox, even if the wiki they copy from don't have a Book infobox.

Dessamator wrote: Anyway, while templates wikia serves as a perfect place to store frequently used templates perhaps dev wikia can serve as a place to store Portable infobox CSS.

Yes, it may be a good idea to have a central place where people can share different styling of infoboxes that people can copy over, independent of what template they use. That could also help people to see the different layers as separate.