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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Not really a devil's advocate type of question
really. There's no evil side to any of the must or optional.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Devil's advocate to your devil's advocate then, the
optional searchform.php, what would be the harm in requiring it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>.. because it doesn't need it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The end user can edit the style.css via the
appearance -> editor, just like the developer can use get_search_form(); and
get the default one that imo is better.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=chip@chipbennett.net href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">Chip
Bennett</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=philip@frumph.net
href="mailto:philip@frumph.net">Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=edward.caissie@gmail.com
href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com">Edward Caissie</A> ; <A
title=theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org
href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 20, 2010 6:38
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme
Review Codex Page</DIV>
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<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>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>Chip</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>