User:TreeIsLife/How we make new FandomMobile

Hey Rafters!

It is exactly 3 months since announcement of new mobile experience, called "FandomMobile". FandomMobile will be our new mobile skin, starting early 2021. While you may think FandomMobile is pretty much ready to replace MinervaNeue mobile skin, it still needs to be debugged, and some parts of skin redone. So, let's dive into this blog, and say something about our new skin.

What is FandomMobile?
FandomMobile is the new mobile experience, which will unify "modern solution" with "compatible solution", and will bring you more performance, better design and much more readable.

Why?
The old skin is called "MinervaNeue" and it is "not good". Even it is pretty fast, we had problems even with so easy thing, like designing.

When we were finally switching skin colors on this skin in 2020, we had hard period of switching it to light format, and when something was changed and fixed, other problem raised. And that was just making it Up-to-date. The "making it modern" is impossible, as it will make even more problems.

Also, it has just limit for expansion up to 1150px, but after limit crossed, most elements, will get fixed, and be stuck forever. This is reason why we started to discontinue entire code, starting February 11, while expected day of discontinuation of entire code is planned after FandomMobile will became available by default.

Front Page Boxes are back working
Entire page is created from blocks called "fpboxes". These are basically boxes, which can be used to make pages pretty and fresh. These boxes are now available here, looking good. Right now, we won't implement custom colors on headings to this stylesheet, but alignment yes, size and fixes? Yes.

Infoboxes, which look like infoboxes
Unfortunately, it is not possible to include stylings for infoboxes, leaving them white. But we fixed some issues, as most of backgrounds were gone, but 2 still remained, and had to be fixed.

Optimalization
We were fixing some bugs, so readers won't need to mind about something shown correctly, and editors about images looking bad, when using "Show Preview".

Conclusion
There are more things coming soon, like even better fpboxes, infoboxes, and tables. Not to mention, performance and optimalization.

So, until next time!