[theme-reviewers] Comment style problems

[Chip Bennett]

My response would be that the Guidelines are both clear and explicit:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Layout_Test_2
and
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test#Comment_Test

Chip

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Philip Walton <philip at philipwalton.com>wrote:

>  I could see a theme developer complaining that lists aren't even supposed
> to be in comments based on the following:
>
> "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>"
>
> 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).
>
>
>
> On 5/3/11 7:35 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>  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.
>
>  But yes: comments *do* need to display HTML tags correctly.
>
>  Chip
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Philip Walton <philip at philipwalton.com>wrote:
>
>> In the Theme Test Unit data, there is a comment with the same markup as
>> page 3 of the "Layout Test".
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
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