Thread:Aeris Ventaile/@comment--20170720153546/@comment-188432-20170720214850

Hey hey :)

To answer your main question, yes, Tabber is going to be the backbone of your tabbed solution in the wake of HeaderTabs' retirement.

No MediaWiki extension that delivers a tabbed experience on desktop truly "works" on mobile in a tabbed way. Instead, as you've pointed out, the tabs are displayed vertically, one on top of another. The distinction between HeaderTabs and Tabber, on mobile, is mainly that HT gives you an interstitial "header", and therefore clearer separation between the tabs.

There is, however, a way to retrofit headers onto a Tabber instance, which you can find here. Of course, implementation would mean that we'd have to manipulate every page at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:HeaderTabs. But there are only about 175 pages affected.

Once we found an arrangement you liked on a few test pages, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to make the move by bot. (And I just happen to have a friendly one. :) )

So, I would suggest that in the next few days you: Once you've found a look you like on mobile, call me back in and then we can bot the changes for the other ~170 pages. We'll also take a look at the ways the desktop Tabber buttons compare with the HT ones, and get them more similar.
 * pick a few test pages that you know are representative of the lot
 * manually make changes along the lines suggested at that help page
 * look on your phone to see what the page looks like after being switched to Tabber

Sound like a plan?