<div dir="ltr">I have no problem with this Josh, nor I was aware that there's an issue with the bundled version.<div><br></div><div>+1 from me to "bend" the rule till this is updated in the core itself :)</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Josh Pollock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jpollock412@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpollock412@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">This is a ridiculous requirement.<div><br></div><div>So let's imagine a scenario where a reviewer noticed that my theme deregistered core-bundled Masonry 4 versions or so ago in order to use Masonry 3. That reviewer would have said "Josh you are required to use the version of Masonry that is bundled with WordPress." To which I would have said, "but you see, the version of Masonry in WordPress is very old. The very different new version, allows me to solve all of the weird formatting problems I was getting when using Masonry in my theme." And the reviewer would have reminded me that our guidelines do not have sensible flexibility built-in to allow for the rules to be bent a bit when it solves real world problems. Instead, I'd have been given the choice of removing a feature or allowing my theme to remain broken for an indefinite period of time.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Wouldn't it have been better if the hypothetical reviewer had allowed this rule bending, in the name of making things work, that would have had little to no adverse consequences as long as I agreed to switch to core-bundled Masonry when it was updated to Masonry 3? </div>


<div><br></div><div>See how that second scenario produces better themes, which I think is the point of the theme review guidelines to begin with.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, my theme works nicely with Masonry, because no one noticed that I acted sensibly instead instead of following the guidelines to the letter, which would have produced an inferior theme.</div>


<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Rohit Tripathi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rohitink@live.com" target="_blank">rohitink@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>


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<div><div dir="ltr">Great. I am submitting a trac ticket with patch.<div><br><div><hr>Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:10:37 -0500<br>From: <a href="mailto:dane@danemorganmedia.com" target="_blank">dane@danemorganmedia.com</a><div>


<br>To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Is it necessary to use Core Bundled Masonry?<br><br></div><div><div>



Chip, do you have a good 
resource for me to start learning how to go about doing that?<br>
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        <a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" style="color:#737f92!important;padding-right:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank">Chip Bennett</a></div>   <div style="display:table-cell;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:middle">


   
  <font color="#9FA2A5"><span style="padding-left:6px">Wednesday, 
September 18, 2013 15:06</span></font></div></div></div>
  <div style="color:#888888"><div dir="ltr">You should 
submit a Trac ticket (with patch, if possible) to have the core-bundled 
version updated.</div><div><br><br><br></div>

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  <font color="#9FA2A5"><span style="padding-left:6px">Wednesday, 
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  <div style="color:#888888"><div dir="ltr">+1 for the 
making this allowed.<div><br></div></div><div><br><br><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Towfiq
 I.</span><br>
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        <a href="mailto:rohitink@live.com" style="color:#737f92!important;padding-right:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank">Rohit Tripathi</a></div>   <div style="display:table-cell;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:middle">


   
  <font color="#9FA2A5"><span style="padding-left:6px">Wednesday, 
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<div dir="ltr">Here is the latest version:<span style="font-size:12pt"> <a href="http://masonry.desandro.com/masonry.pkgd.min.js" target="_blank">http://masonry.desandro.com/masonry.pkgd.min.js</a></span><div>and
 here is the one which wordpress uses: <a href="http://pastebin.com/HtbGdtdK" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/HtbGdtdK</a></div><div><br></div><div>These
 are two really different scripts.<br><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div></div>
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  <font color="#9FA2A5"><span style="padding-left:6px">Wednesday, 
September 18, 2013 14:58</span></font></div></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr">The core jquery-masonry(v2.1) is 
practically useless, it has 1/3rd the amount of code present in the 
version 3.1.2. I will be handicapped, if I am forced to use the MUCH 
older version, as I am not able to do what I want with it.<div><br></div><div>It's
 a request to allow usage of the latest version, as both are really 
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  <font color="#9FA2A5"><span style="padding-left:6px">Wednesday, 
September 18, 2013 14:54</span></font></div></div></div>
  <div style="color:#888888"><p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes it's requirement to use core bundled scripts.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Emil</p>


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