User blog comment:Wikification/In regards to the new "tab system"/@comment-4271790-20160220044434

As I mentioned here, the previous option you were using (known as "Tabber") is not a good option to use for separating text. It's something to avoid for bodies of text. To restate what I said in the forum:

"Tabber relies on Javascript and there are users who don't have it enabled in their browsers. There is no contingency if Javascript is disabled, which means large sections of text would be jumbled up and possibly out of order, or in some cases, large sections of text would be missing altogether due to Tabber if readers don't have JS enabled in their browsers. Tabber is kept exclusively for use in images as that kind of information is not necessary to be displayed if the user disables JS on their browser. Another issue I found with too much tabber being used in articles is that it cancels out the functions of the table of contents on each article here. For instance, in Bunnie's article, I pressed on section 18 in the table of contents titled 'Rab-'Bot' No More...' and it wouldn't send me to that portion of the page due to the tabber blocking the function from working properly."

Basically, not every reader that comes to Wikia has Javascript enabled on their browser or has it working properly. Therefore, for some readers, using tabbers in text will either mess up and jumble up the information, or sometimes hide the information altogether, which certainly is a problem.

Not to mention (and this goes for all readers of the site, JS enabled or not), the table of contents function that allows readers to instantly get to a section of an article is disabled once tabber is used to separate text, making it inconvenient for readers and forcing them to scroll down long articles just to read a section. Basically, tabber was never a good idea to use for separating text. Tabber is a function primarily for images, not for large textual information.

"One of the things I'm concerned about with this new parent template tab system is that it will be doubling up on a lot of pages." I don't think that'll be a problem. Especially when the double pages are linked together with the tab. It isn't like the wiki is running out of space. The Star Wars Wiki and the wiki I work on, the Dragon Universe Wiki thrive with using tab systems to separate contradicting information. I think this wiki can thrive with it too.