Thread:Haldarn/@comment-193051-20180425031757/@comment-193051-20180425225646

I considered using a border with a radius, but I decided to stay faithful to the original intent and used an image border. I used the border-image property, which is a CSS3 (relatively new) thing that's designed specifically for this purpose and will expand to whatever size is needed.

Updating FFXIbox/Begin and FFXIbox/End should fix Infobox NPC, though Infobox NPC should probably get a revamp anyway. Unfortunately, I won't have time to work on anything until Tuesday, but I'll try to find some time next week to get it all updated.

I also noticed that the TrustNPC changes I made now make Trust pages look odd for a different reason, so I may want to try out some other things before I convert Infobox NPC as well. I wish I knew exactly what formatting/styling mobile strips - it's really annoying playing a guessing game.

I think the idea of the FFXIboxes/Infoboxes was to emulate Wikipedia's Template:Infobox person, which they do, though the information is pretty limited. As for the styling, I guess Gahoo (or whoever; Gahoo uploaded the border images) decided they wanted to have a fancy border to spice up the page and be different from Wikipedia (something that mattered way too much to some of the old admins).

I don't particularly mind the infoboxes, though I think they would be better utilized if NPC pages had some actual meat to them (descriptions, quotes, etc.) instead of being just a list of links or an almost blank page. If we were to make changes, I'd move the notes section should be first, above the "Involved In..." sections, and encourage NPC quotes and descriptions with a stub template/category.