hey again. I have some thoughts about Currently Being Released.
So right now we've got a boilerplate in comment tags that includes the table which displays the newly released dragon sprites, descriptions, and artists for each stage.
Currently we've got them set up so that the progression of egg -> hatchling -> adult reads from left to right by column. This has been bothering me a little, because the adult descriptions are always a lot longer than the egg/hatchling ones, which causes the adult column to get alocated a much larger column width and squishes the other descriptions to 1-2 words per line of text
Example
| Egg | Hatchling | Mature Hatchling | Adult | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprites | File:April 2019 Vibrant Egg.png | File:April 2019 Vibrant Hatchling S1.png | File:April 2019 Vibrant Hatchling S2.png | 
|
| Description | This light egg has very vibrant colors. | Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very calm and has a glistening mane. | Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very calm and has a glistening mane.
And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing. | Skysilk Dragons spend their days drifting through the heavens, their voluminous manes billowing like clouds. Imbued with air mana, their fluffy fur is incredibly lightweight—so much so that it defies gravity, taking on a mind of its own as it puffs upward. This property makes them quite popular among avian species—birds flock together for the opportunity to play among a Skysilk’s fleecy crown. Docile and patient, Skysilks are quite tolerant of this treatment, with hatchlings in particular developing tight-knit friendships with their feathered visitors. Interestingly, their lustrous scales always retain their dull gleam, despite the frequent presence of tiny critters. |
| Artist(s) | Process | Process | Process | Process |
I was wondering if we could consider flipping the rows and columns of the table, so the stages will progress from egg to dragon from top down, and descriptions and artists will be inline with the sprites. This way all of the text rows can share the extra wide column space, and the columns that will never be particularly wide (such as sprites that have size caps) only use up as much space as they need.
Rotated Example
| Sprites | Description | Artist | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egg | File:April 2019 Vibrant Egg.png | This light egg has very vibrant colors. | Process |
| Hatchling | File:April 2019 Vibrant Hatchling S1.png | Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very calm and has a glistening mane. | Process |
| Mature hatchling | File:April 2019 Vibrant Hatchling S2.png | Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It’s very calm and has a glistening mane.
And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing. | Process |
| Adult |
| Skysilk Dragons spend their days drifting through the heavens, their voluminous manes billowing like clouds. Imbued with air mana, their fluffy fur is incredibly lightweight—so much so that it defies gravity, taking on a mind of its own as it puffs upward. This property makes them quite popular among avian species—birds flock together for the opportunity to play among a Skysilk’s fleecy crown. Docile and patient, Skysilks are quite tolerant of this treatment, with hatchlings in particular developing tight-knit friendships with their feathered visitors. Interestingly, their lustrous scales always retain their dull gleam, despite the frequent presence of tiny critters. | Process |
Wanted to run this by here to make sure this actually seems like a useful table layout or if I just think it's useful because I personally like it this way. :) If there are no objections, I'd like to try this layout if we see a release for DC's birthday this week.
