Template talk:Notice and warning templates

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I fail to see the purpose of using {navbox with columns} when no columns are needed. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 21:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Does the following meet your approval..? :

Sardanaphalus (talk) 10:25, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, for the same reason why fixed columns should be used only when needed; they do not fit on small screens. If you have a tablet or smartphone, you should test your edit on those. Or just resize your browser window to around half you screen size. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 11:04, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here, the browser window's width needs to be around 640px before the single-column version requires scrolling and around 1024px before the two-column version requires the same. Are you thinking of mobile.wikipedia.org..? Sardanaphalus (talk) 11:41, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On my 1280 wide screen, your latest example already breaks around 1024px. The mobile version does disable fixed columns (not dynamic one), but many tablet users (and old computers) still have small screens, where this markup is detrimental. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 12:06, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Resolution states that "The lowest resolution that it is considered possible to support without adversely affecting other users is 1024×768; all articles should look acceptable at this resolution without excessive horizontal scrolling." This suggests that the single-column version is acceptable ("already acceptable"?) while the two-column version would be made (more) acceptable if e.g. the gap between the columns was reduced (to e.g. 2.0em). Sardanaphalus (talk) 12:56, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]