Umm ... searchform.php is not a very good example. It's full functionality for the most part is actually built into core.<br><br><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_search_form">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_search_form</a><br>
<br><br>Cais.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:42 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: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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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: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b>From:</b>
<a title="chip@chipbennett.net" href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">Chip
Bennett</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a title="philip@frumph.net" href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">Edward Caissie</a> ; <a title="theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a>
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</div><div class="im"><div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 20, 2010 6:38
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Theme
Review Codex Page</div>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><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" target="_blank">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></div></div></blockquote></div>
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