<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Well put it this way ... custom-background is a
convience.. that's all, just like custom-header.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">While post-thumbnails are a 'feature', if
considered as such then I would say yeah it should be required, but if I
consider it an 'addon' then I would say optional.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div></div></blockquote><div>Just to play Devil's Advocate, let me ask it this way: what would be the potential *downsides* if Custom Background support were made mandatory? </div>
<div><br></div><div>(Just like I started from the opposite viewpoint, I'm not against returning to it. We could always use the Tagging system to note which features are supported by a given Theme.)</div><div><br></div>
<div>Chip</div></div>