User blog comment:Katat0nyx/Playing with templates/@comment-5596770-20131029193638/@comment-15636815-20131030005928

Well, that works visually, obviously. It also means we can't use the familiar ((gems|30)) ((XP|50000)) format.

I'm used to working with tables, where all vertical data have the same format. I've seen infoboxes, of course, but I haven't worked with them, so the "with icons/without icons" thing took me a little bit by surprise.

I do know that our community has many inconsistencies and that we're working to eliminate as many as possible. Is the visual advantage gained by this alignment worth the sacrifice of consistency of input format? Or, given the capabilities of the new VisualEditor (when it arrives), will consistency of source code even matter anymore? TemplateData automatically will make all resource input consistent throughout the website, regardless of the data or the output. That would allow us to do this special kind of alignment behind the scenes, which is more likely to attract new contributors who don't care how the template works, as long as it does.

Just a thought.