I think it might be a slippery slope. As long as it's clear in the description what is supported by the theme, I don't think we need to force a certain level of support. <div><br></div><div>And what is "support" anyways? Does everything have to work? Look the same? Kind of the same? Mostly work?..</div>
<div><br></div><div>I wouldn't want someone with a super creative and forward-thinking approach to a theme get turned away because their HTML5/CSS3 stuff doesn't work/isn't even supported in a browser that we require.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, maybe a "recommendation" of IE9 and up, with special consideration if justified?</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2013 22:35, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Probably a good discussion topic for Make/Themes?</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com" target="_blank">emil@themeid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There should be a guideline about this. Latest browsers need to be supported.</span><br>
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</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I personally don't like or use IE, but that doesn't mean that I can "dictate" the</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">browser usage.</font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If this was IE7, IE8, fine, no problem, heck let's say even IE9, but to say IE9+</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Just my 2¢ that's all :)</font></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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<font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emil</font></div><div><div><br></div></div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I have no problem with it. A properly developed and designed Theme should have minimal IE issues anymore, anyway.<div>
<br></div><div>I don't "support" IE with my Theme, either. I can't; I use Linux, and thus have no way of even *running* IE.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Doing something that actively *excludes* IE (or any other browser) would certainly not be acceptable; but developing a standards-compliant Theme, and opting not to jump through hoops for IE? Meh; doesn't bother me all that much.</div>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Edward Caissie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward.caissie@gmail.com" target="_blank">edward.caissie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Flatly not supporting one of the most commonly found browsers (not necessarily used but it does come with Windows) is not a very good idea; and although we do not have any specific guidelines in place I think if a Theme Author is going that route something that significant should be in the Theme description.<br>
<br></div>As it is, you would be better served by asking the Theme author to explain that statement before making any assumptions. As noted, it may only be that they are supporting current versions of IE and simply left off the version number in their readme file.<br>
<br></div>Myself, for general distribution themes, I only support current (or one version back at the most) browsers. I don't state the actual version only making reference to the browser being current. Of course, client work is generally different but those "rules" do not necessarily apply here.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div>Edward Caissie<br>aka Cais.</div></font></span><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:12 PM, John Heimkes IV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@heimk.es" target="_blank">john@heimk.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">That's a great question, actually. I'd like to know what the general consensus is on this matter. Don't worry about being fussy. I've been doing front-end for many years. So, I totally get it.<div>
<br></div><div>My personal opinion is if they're not going to support certain browsers (aka, the browsers most of us web developers have to support on a daily basis), the author <i>should</i> make it known up front - especially in the CSS file for good documentation purposes. Some sort of clarification from the author would be nice in this case. Maybe they're just not supporting older versions of IE and it looks fine in IE10, and maybe even IE9.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, I hope someone else has a better answer!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>John Heimkes IV</div><div><div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 31, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Srikanth Koneru <<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com" target="_blank">tskk79@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Since IE has at least 30% browser share, I think theme has to support it.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Alex Watson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@alexwatson.co.uk" target="_blank">alex@alexwatson.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>So I'm reviewing my first theme, and a few mins into it I find this in the readme.txt:</div><div><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap">* NOT SUPPORTED on Internet Explore *</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Is that okay? Are themes allowed to be built and not work in IE at all? It's probably the fussy web developer side of me coming out here, as everything I do has to work in IE8+ :) I've not got so far as to have tested it in IE yet, but are we even required to do cross browser testing? I think we should, but I can't see that in the review guidelines anywhere.</span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Anyway, please let me know if I'm just being too fussy here! (and sorry if this has been asked before but I just joined this mailing list a couple of days ago)</span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Many thanks</span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Alex</span></div>
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