Thread:Janus100/@comment-28398720-20161025080343/@comment-28398720-20161102190940

If someone is using a "very old browser" that doesn't support column-count, then I question how they magically support everything else on this wikia. I agree. iirc wikia just dropped support for IE11 this month, so we could probably drop a LOT of things, like all the gradient\round\etc css stuff and even use flex.

But as for the topic at hand. You reasoned that we shouldn't do a straight replace for current "col begin\2\end", asking for a better solution. The new code I provided: retain "col begin\2\end" functionality, is mobile friendly, and a stable solution ( enjoying both cross-platform compatibility and has no standing issues .)

Do you agree, have reservations or a better solutions in mind?

It's more user friendly to you, less user friendly to me. That is my preference, that is your preference. I don't speak for anyone else, and as far as I'm concerned, you don't either.

Sure we all have different preferences. But if someone were to decide we need to use "info" instead of "infoboxes" and ignore the template type feature just because its not how they do things, obviously it will effect functionality and won't be just a mater of preference.

More importantly, I am not convinced that this is even an issue. From the start, I have seen your suggestion as a mobile friendly solution to columns, that would replace our "col begin\2\end" site wide. Thus my insistence on retaining the common\recognizable template names and functionality that is both used here and pretty much on any wikia that potential editors would have been exposed to, because conventions are important and help ease in editors.

But with the new code above, we can have both. Your suggestion would be used for few multiple row list, with short items, that are likely to be changed such as the ALIEs cult list of members. So we can be more flexible with it.