Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-667748-20130513104011

As you have probably noticed, I recently templatized the Boxes for armors. User:Balagog gro-Nolob helped with the styling.

I am now trying to do the same thing with weapons. One of the problem is that the boxes tend to be very large. One of the things I tried to do is to have a template that integrates all the data, and then you call just activate a switch that suppresses entire columns at once. The advantages of this are:
 * One template for weapons / shields
 * Easy customization
 * Exact same data, regardless of display

This last point, (IMO), is the most important: It means you can display or hide entire columns at once, without changing the actual data. This is particularly interesting when you are copy pasting data around: EVERYONE uses the same format, regardless of displayed information.

Please check it out here: User:happypal/Sandbox. Make sure to look at the code.

I was thinking of rolling this out first for Unique/Demon/Dragon weapons. I'd do something similar for "normal" weapons, with the standard tabbing we've come to use generically here.

--- What I'd like is a little bit of feed-back, ideas, criticism on my scheme. What I'm on the fence about is the whole "aux" columns: They really serve no purpose, IMO, since it is really just an attribute of the weapon: Either the weapon has it at 110, or it doesn't: No need to put it in the table. Are you guys in agreement with me on this? That we just remove it?

So, yeah, throw anything/everything you've got at me :) 