User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-8865495-20150820025302

Portable infoboxes, it's a good idea but basically only for mobile users.

However, the "old" way of making infoboxes was simple enough, it was basically a table, really. My biggest concern with the newer infoboxes is simple: does the new markup get the job done better than the old one, while still being simple and easy to make and/or style, as well as being easy to read (identifying parameters, styles, and where things go wrong)? I'd say no, the new markup is much like HTML, which wikitext was supposed to simplify (and has done quite well actually), yet portable infoboxes does near the exact opposite, adding unnecessary, or excessive, tags. Do I really need  or , when I could do something like this:

I'm sure once one gets familiar with all the magic words and parser functions, and is proficient in making tables, styling things, and formatting code so its readable (i.e. indenting stuff, like how it is standardized (hopefully) with the new markup), the old way is much more efficient in my opinion.

It's highly possible I dislike the portable infoboxes because I'm opposed to unneeded change. Either way, I believe the way it is now is best, the userbase can choose what they prefer, instead of a mandatory change, which in past forced changes, has pissed many, or at least some, people off.

TL;DR: New markup sucks (write more, do less in some cases) as opposed to traditional wikitext; Styling completely clutters things up if done messily (even more so than it was before), unless it was done via CSS (using classes).

I may change my mind if:
 * 1) the infoboxes actually provide the information they need to give without being a waste a space, which at the time being, has space which could potentially be for better use,
 * 2) the new markup' readability and editability is superior than the old markup, and if
 * 3) portable infoboxes exceeds the ability of the current ones in both mobile (which is probably has, but I never use mobile anyways) and desktop (PCs)?

I especially want to see some improvements when it comes to using portable infoboxes on desktop devices. Maybe it's a better idea to create two infoboxes, one that only shows on mobile, while the other only shows on PCs? I dunno, maybe just a consideration.

And a funny thought: what happens if the css changes does absolutely no good on mobile devices and end up looking the same way they do now?