Thread:Tatzelwyrm/@comment-20644-20120910225940/@comment-4830404-20120911143140

I'm easy either way - I'll go along with what the majority decision is.

If I were to participate, I'd personally like to learn more about browser compatibilities/differences and the effects of various wikia skins on how different users view wikis. I didn't realize how different it could be until I saw our most recent home page at work. The colors were totally different from what I see at home. Some things that would look perfect with one setup may not match so well on others. Also, different screen resolutions could drastically affect how tables are spaced on the screen. I'd like a better understanding of this to make the wiki experience smooth for as many users as possible.

The other thing I would be interested in is what code functions are available without adding javascript and MediaWiki stuff. There are so many things that I could do with javascript but I want to keep that to a minimum so that users who suffer compatibility problems will not have to deal with rampant unloadable functionality all over the site. A lot of things I've seen (like MediaWiki addons for variables) involve adding more javascript. I'd like to be able to maximize built-in wiki functions so that we don't cause inaccessibility problems for users who can't enable javascript in their browsers.

I have the tendency to want to improve lots of things with code, but I'm being really conservative at the moment because I am not very familiar with wikia structure and all the built-in things that may be available without forcing users to load more javascript.

There are some major layout functions in the MediaWiki files that affect the whole site using javascript. I'm guessing that all javascript including the base layout code fails to load for users who don't have javascript enabled. I've tried viewing the wiki pages from an iPhone and there are many missing elements. I wonder if I could learn enough to make an alternate view with better support for mobile devices. Dragon Story is a mobile game, after all.