I think this may have been discussed, but it has been a while, I believe.<br><br>There's been some discussion on this group about the term responsive. Rather than spend effort on the existing theme named "Responsive", I think there is something more useful for all of us:<br>
<br>The term "responsive" really needs to be added to the set of official theme tags.<br><br>see: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tag-filter/">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tag-filter/</a><br><br>
By now, the meaning and functionality of the term "responsive" is pretty clear. I even think it is pretty easy for reviewers to objectively determine if a theme is really "responsive" - one doesn't even need a real mobile device to test if a theme is reasonably responsive - just shrink the desktop browser. Perhaps there should be some standards, but I don't think they need to be complicated. Perhaps as simple as:<br>
<br>( A simple starting point for discussion.)<br><br>A theme is responsive if it does these things:<br><br>1. REQUIRED: Scales content and images to fit the current screen size. This means scaling, and not hiding overflow.<br>
2. REQUIRED: The theme will provide special handling for sidebars as the screen gets small enough. (What is the cutoff? Let the theme designer decide - but it would not be reasonable, for example, to still see sidebars squished on a 400px screen. And this doesn't necessarily mean stacking, but stacking would be a good approach. Hiding the sidebars completely is another reasonable alternative some designers like.<br>
3. RECOMMENDED: The theme will have a menu that works well on a phone sized device. (Now that it has been fixed for IE8, Twenty Eleven is a nice example.)<br><br>And I think that is about all the specifications needed to qualify for a "responsive" tag. But, of course, that needs to be added to the theme tags list first.<br>
<br>I also believe that once it is added, it will become increasingly difficult to have a successful theme that is not responsive.<br><br><br>Bruce Wampler<br>