Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8-20150722231907/@comment-25209034-20150917210031

Sannse wrote: Then I obviously didn't explain it well enough :)

These new infoboxes are designed to be a long term solution to showing the information on all platforms. The current code that displays them on mobile is a cludge held together with sellotape. For example, it assumes that any two columned table is an infobox - which can cause errors on some wikias. And it's only going to get worse as the number and type of devices expands. The new boxes are designed to have the data separate from the formatting, which means a more resilient and flexible system that will ensure that whatever device someone is using (and whatever new ones are invented) we can show the same data in a smooth way.

The test box I've done and the originals are very close, but I've done some more tweaks to bring them even closer. I think the only things I didn't do (ran out of time today) was the vertical alignment of the labels, and fiddle around with the padding a bit to make them the same height. Here's the current comparison:

It really is to your advantage to use these new boxes, and be sure that people see, and keep seeing, your pages correctly. (And of course, the reason we are encouraging them is that it helps us serve pages correctly too!) Sannse, look I know you want to pay yourself on the back saying you did but in reality you make minalists changes which hardly effect anything just to give yourself the illusion of update