My response would be that the Guidelines are both clear and explicit:<div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Layout_Test_2">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Layout_Test_2</a></div>
<div>and</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Comment_Test">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Comment_Test</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Philip Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@philipwalton.com">philip@philipwalton.com</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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I could see a theme developer complaining that lists aren't even
supposed to be in comments based on the following:<br>
<br>
"You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href=""
title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title="">
<b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code>
<del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite="">
<strike> <strong>"<br>
<br>
Obviously most themes don't actually strip out all but those tags,
but I'm still curious to hear how you'd respond to a comment like
that on a trac ticket (hypothetically).<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 5/3/11 7:35 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">The li.comment children lists and list items are one
of the primary reasons to check all HTML tags within comments. All
too often, the developer will either not properly specify styles
for li.comment, or else will overlook resetting the LI styling.
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<div>For everything else, as with the Layout Test post, HTML tag
styling should be appropriate within the design intent. Some
things are fairly discrete (EM, BIG, STRONG, SUB, SUP, etc.),
but others are much more subjective.</div>
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<div>But yes: comments *do* need to display HTML tags correctly.</div>
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<div>Chip<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Philip
Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@philipwalton.com" target="_blank">philip@philipwalton.com</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">In the Theme Test Unit data, there is a
comment with the same markup as page 3 of the "Layout Test".<br>
<br>
I've run across a number of themes that don't include the
styles necessary to have the comments display the same way
as the layout test does. One really common problem is the
lists often have borders or padding around them because the
comments themselves are list items.<br>
<br>
How much should comment styling really be taken into
consideration? Has it been decided that poor styling of
complex markup with a comment is grounds for rejection?<br>
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