Thread:Talk:New skins system/Don't remove all the non-CSS-heavy skins!/reply (5)

The bandwidth differences between the skins are negligible so my feeling is they are using Chick because it "looks cleaner" on tight spaced mobile devices than Vector. This could easily be fixed by making Vector's CSS more responsive, instead of maintaining support for legacy skins. I believe that the Athena project would address these concerns adequately. Athena hasn't been resourced by the WMF, but my gut says that all the mocks can be done with tweaks to Vector without creating an Athena skin, and I'd imagine the mobile team will be driving this effort sometime next year just out of the need to merge the mobile web code back into core.