(See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35704 for
lots of examples of broken template/css combos)

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in
> templates. For example:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001
>
> When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is
> because of a troublesome inline style in the template and then we
> communicate this on the template talk page [1]
>
> However, rarely do these get replies and rarely does anything get fixed.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Should I be posting these problems
> elsewhere? It seems like a lot of templates do not have active
> maintainers.
>
> There has been an RFC [2] open for ages that when solved I hope will
> lead to lots of discussions between developers and template
> maintainers but right now it seems even without the tools we are
> failing.
>
> How can we get better at making our template styles more mobile friendly?
>
> [1] 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Quotation#Padding_interferes_with_mobile_skin
> [2] 
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templates

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