Thread:Dirtbag Daryl/@comment-24739709-20150520015707/@comment-24739709-20150615235401

Oh, hey, I know the answer to this!

Right now, our solution to infoboxes (and, as a whole, Wikia features that don't translate well to mobile) is to patch over the problem. Your infoboxes look OK on your phone and iPad, for example, because we added in a little piece of logic that goes, "if this looks like a table that has two columns, pretend it's an infobox and display it like that". And for every wikia that looks passable under those conditions, there are two that don't.

The problem? That solution only works for a short time and for a few devices. Then a different device comes around, or a whole different platform (like tablets did a couple years ago) or a new display standard. What this syntax change ensures is that we will be able to take your content and display it anywhere, on any device, anytime, instead of having to patch over our current code. To paraphrase my project manager, we want to be able to display Shao Kahn's infobox on a washing machine.

Does that make more sense?