Thread:Digifiend/@comment-188432-20160727153923/@comment-188432-20160810192116

On Digifiend's point about the images in tabber, I agree there's likely room for improvement. Not by TTF or I, mind you; it requires Engineering. And I'll certainly have a word with them about your experiences here at Power Rangers.

But let's be clear about the nature of the problem. As you can see to the right, tabber flatly doesn't work in non-portable infoboxes seen in mobile. It simply puts one image underneath the other. So the fact that tabber works at all on portable infoboxes in mobile is a success. Also, Digifiend showed us an image from phone held at landscape. And, yes, that's a problem, particularly on larger phones. When you hold your phone that way, you're approaching, or sometimes exceeding, minimum widths for tablets. At those widths, you kinda should be looking at the full site. Certainly, the infobox is much wider at that point than it is on desktop or just about any other device.

But I do think that the picture upthread is a bit misleading. It doesn't really show us the totality of the image served. In actuality, tabber in PIs can cut off a bit of the image -- but only verically, and nowhere near as much as suggested by the earlier image. As you can see, you're not getting this dude's legs -- but you're getting a decent idea of who the character is.

Of course, I think most people using a phone will tend to gravitate towards portrait orientation. And in that aspect, there's no real question that the PIs work a lot better, even with tabber. I've already shown you that the non-PI's don't work with tabber at all, but let's take a look to the right at how tabber behaves within PIs. Finally, there's this non-image related fact: your current non-PIs throw errors on mobile. Not sure if you knew this or not, but when a value isn't present for a variable, your infoboxes display the variable.

So while I know that the images aren't perfect when you hold your phone in landscape, can we agree that it works well in portrait? And that being able to at least have some tabber functionality is better than the current situation where you have none?

I hear you on the "skinniness" of the actual tab on desktop. TTF will be working on that soon. But can we -- at least for now -- accept the image (and variable!) handling of portable infoboxes as a general step forward?