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[Syahir Hakim]

I do agree that inline styles are definitely not best practice, but as 
Sayontan has pointed out there are certain valid use cases with them. Of 
course, we don't want theme developers to litter the bulk of their codes 
with inline styles, but enforcing them as required would be nitpicking 
on little things that would not bring significant benefits. It will only 
add another barrier of entry to new theme developers looking to 
contribute to the repository, and dump additional work on existing 
developers who are already stretching their time contributing to the 
repository. This is especially when the majority of theme users will not 
even notice a difference to their user experience as a result of this 
change. Inline styles are easily overridden by using !important, anyways.

I would agree with it being recommended rather than required. That way 
theme developers who are using inline styles can gradually update their 
codes to get rid of most of the inline styles. Guidelines should be that 
- guidelines. Every new item being enforced as required will add 
additional work to existing developers, and additional barrier of entry 
to new developers. Everything comes at a cost, and for this case I do 
not think the benefits outweigh the costs.

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Regards,
Syahir Hakim


On 4/05/2012 8:15 p.m., Greg Priday wrote:
> I feel there's a certain spirit of WordPress that makes the community
> great and has helped it thrive.
>
> There's nothing inherently wrong with using the style attribute here
> and there, but I do feel it goes against this spirit. I'm sure most
> WordPress developers will agree that using the style attribute just
> doesn't feel right. To me, it just looks plain ugly - I dont even like
> using them during development.
>
> On the other hand, as a once-OO developer, I used to hate WordPress'
> use of global variables all willy nilly. It's part of the spirit of
> WordPress though, so I've learned to embrace, and even appreciate,
> globals. So I definitely understand your views Sayontan. The spirit of
> WordPress can sometimes be confusing, dogmatic, etc - but it's usually
> for the best.
>
> Time to get back to work. I'm sure we all have awesome stuff to build.
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Sayontan Sinha<sayontan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Do we need to continue our "discussion" ? ;)
>>
>> By all means go ahead. As I said, your links give examples of repeated
>> styles, which I am not disputing. As I pointed out in my previous post, for
>> a style used only once, an inline style is less bloat, akin to the Hello
>> World patterns example. (I had a much longer text written about repeated vs.
>> non-repeated styles in one of my prior posts, but I deleted it because I
>> wanted to shorten the mail)
>>
>> Anyway, I don't believe I am going to convince or be convinced, so this is
>> the end of my contribution to this thread. Feel free to thrust this as a
>> "REQUIRED" item for theme approval if you feel that is the best recourse. I
>> still believe that enforcing "No inline styles" is dogmatic and without
>> appropriate technical merit, but I am probably in a minority of 1.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Emil Uzelac<emil at themeid.com>  wrote:
>>> And to add and possibly finish this
>>> up: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/secrets/web-page/replace-inline-style.html
>>> was published in http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596515081/?tag=websiteoptimi-20
>>> as well ;) Do we need to continue our "discussion" ? ;)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Emil
>>>
>>
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