[theme-reviewers] Current Theme Unit Test Data

[Emil Uzelac]

I meant does not* support, sorry!

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> *"Design responsiveness should not be JavaScript dependent"*
>
> IE8 and bellow do not support CSS3 media queries, so JS is very much
> needed :) please see: https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond/ I'm using
> that in my Theme and many others out there.
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>wrote:
>
>> The only guidelines I would recommend regarding responsive design are:
>>
>>
>>    - No content should be hidden, ever, that's (very) bad practice.
>>    - Images should constrain proportions.
>>    - Design responsiveness should not be JavaScript dependent
>>
>>
>> Everything else would mean restraining the developer. IMHO.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Jul 19, 2012, at 1:10 AM, Emil Uzelac wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> This is all good and we appreciate the heads-up, however at this moment I
>> would not require Theme Reviewers to test RWD.
>>
>> Think of it like this. If developers says that their Theme is HTML5, none
>> of us will actually go and check just to see if every Theme element is
>> HTML5 and/or if developers decided to "hack" with non-HTML5 techniques.
>> As Chip said once this will be under the description and that's all for
>> right now.
>>
>> Just for FYI purpose only all this and much more is under my Theme
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/responsive, feel free to browse
>> around if you need. Autohide or shrink of sidebars is not the best
>> practices, I would always prefer to "stack" -vs hide.
>>
>> Few sites to consider:
>>
>>    - http://foundation.zurb.com/ (my personal favorite)
>>    - http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ (second favorite)
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emil
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Bruce Wampler <weavertheme at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry a bit slow with this - Chip asked for some ideas about responsive
>>> theme tests or guidelines. Here are some of the issues I believe to be
>>> important:
>>>
>>> 1. Sidebars - sidebars should nicely shrink with the rest of the page -
>>> things should stay proportional. At some point (maybe at about 480, maybe
>>> even below 600), the sidebar should autohide or everything gets too
>>> squished. I think this kind of behavior should be at the least RECOMMENDED
>>> for responsive themes, if not required.
>>>
>>> One of the problems testing this behavior is that not all browsers
>>> respond to responsive div hiding - they need a manual refresh at each new
>>> width. The content will shrink fine, but the responsive hides don't always
>>> auto-show.
>>>
>>> 2. Images - images need to shrink as the screen does. This includes the
>>> header image.
>>>
>>> 3. Menus - menus need to resize nicely. This isn't always easy to do,
>>> and it is not uncommon to get a mess of unreadable, unusable stacked menu
>>> items.
>>>
>>> 4. Possibly unhide or move special areas as the width shrinks. Sidebars
>>> might switch from the side to the bottom, for example.
>>>
>>> 5. Video media - Video should either dynamically shrink with the screen
>>> (not easy), or at worst hide the overflow.
>>>
>>> 6. Same for iFrames.
>>>
>>> 7. Titles - titles should ideally shrink and wrap, not overwrite
>>> surrounding content. Actually, same for all content. The content should
>>> shrink or re-wrap, and not overwrite surrounding content or sidebars.
>>>
>>> 8. If themes have special handling for some devices (iOS or Android), it
>>> should be noted, but it is probably unrealistic to expect testers to have
>>> those devices to test on. Don't know how such things can be tested. Maybe
>>> if there are reviewers with access to such devices, they could have
>>> priority for testing such features. Don't know how many themes include that
>>> kind of support yet, but I imagine it will become more common. It might be
>>> interesting to discuss as recommends to use the existing iOS features that
>>> are available with the WP admin side. (I know they are there, but
>>> unfortunately don't really know if they can easily be used by themes. Seems
>>> like a good opportunity.)
>>>
>>> Also, Opera has a mobile device simulator that could be of some use for
>>> testers of responsive themes.
>>>
>>> Bruce Wampler
>>>
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