Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4643078-20150908000638

I'd like to bring up a possible change for the infoboxes used on this site. I'm considering switching to portable infoboxes. Portable infoboxes are a recent addition to the wikia sites, and they are designed to be mobile-friendly. There is more info on portable infoboxes here. Admittedly, the infoboxes we are currently using look a bit wonky on mobile devices, and sometimes they don't function correctly. The portable infoboxes are designed to fix those problems.

Another benefit to these new infoboxes is that I'm learning how to create much more simplified templates for infoboxes in the process. The result is much more user-friendly and only requires about the half the amount of code. The image below is a comparison of the source code for both kinds of infoboxes. (Click on the image if you want to view it more closely) On the left is the source code for our current infoboxes, and on the right is the source code for the portable infobox test I created. The portable infobox should only need about half as much code and be much more straightforward.



Essentially, my goal here is to keep the infoboxes mostly the same while just changing the code. I've been working a bit on creating a portable infobox to test it out, and the result can be seen here. It's still a work in progress and I hope to tweak it a bit more, but overall it's fairly similar to our current infoboxes. Feel free to leave comments and suggestions, and let me know what you think. 