[theme-reviewers] Theme Reviwers

Fri May 4 13:03:42 UTC 2012

If it genuine cause for rejection and it's not in the guidelines,  then the
guidelines should be amended to reflect it.
On May 4, 2012 1:59 PM, "Emil Uzelac" <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> Phone did not display this correctly:
>
> For instance, having a style.css description in any other language but
> English is NOT accepted and that's NOT in Theme Guidelines. This is just
> one of the few that I can remember.
>
> Emil
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> How can you say that? For instance having a style.css description in any
>> other language but English is no accepted and it is not in Theme NOT in
>> guidelines!
>>
>> Emil
>>
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> For any particular item to be "not accepted" it MUST be stated as such
>>> in the guidelines, no matter if it is "inline styles" or any other item of
>>> note.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cais.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think that you guys understand few things here, so let me
>>>> explain:
>>>>
>>>> We're not discussing if this is something we're going to put into Theme
>>>> Review guidelines or not, inline styles are already not accepted and this
>>>> is not yes/no discussion here.
>>>>
>>>> You're also not understanding what it means if we really put this in
>>>> Theme Review and let me explain how many will understand "recommended only"
>>>>
>>>> "Hey, by the law you are recommended to be 21+ to drink, but no you're
>>>> not required to be 21+ to drink alcohol" that's what would happen if we do
>>>> "recommended only" Do you have any idea how many will actually be as one of
>>>> you and truly follow the recommendations?
>>>>
>>>> Matt Mullenweg said once "WordPress Repository is not the place for all
>>>> Themes, it's the place for best Themes" (don't quote me literally).
>>>>
>>>> There's also a difference between a minimum standard and required or
>>>> recommended, please make a note of that.
>>>>
>>>> Just to repeat, *inline styles are not accepted for a longer time*, my
>>>> e-mail was for Theme Reviewers and *merely as reminde*r of some "*missed
>>>> in reviews items*",* not a message that this was something new and I
>>>> wanted everyone to know about it.* We don't need to discuss if they're
>>>> going to be required or recommended, I don't think that we need to do
>>>> either, unless this becomes something authors do often than we would most
>>>> likely put this into guidelines and make it required. Sayontan
>>>> translated this as an "attack" on Theme developers and no it wasn't, not at
>>>> all.
>>>>
>>>> *Now that we got attention from some, let's join the WPTRT and help us
>>>> with some reviews, wasted energy if much more helpful there than here :)
>>>> WordPress contribution doesn't stop by releasing a Theme or two, it's not a
>>>> product, it's a continuing process.*
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>> *P.S. And BTW for "regex" I am not "killing" anything but what I
>>>> needed to do. Styles are removed from inline to external (added back in via
>>>> style.css)*
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>> /* =Gallery
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------- */
>>>> .gallery {
>>>> margin:0 auto 18px;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> .gallery .gallery-item {
>>>> float:left;
>>>>  margin-top:0;
>>>> text-align:center;
>>>> width:155px;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> .gallery img {
>>>> border:1px solid #ddd;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> .gallery .gallery-caption {
>>>> font-size:12px;
>>>>  margin:0 0 12px;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> .gallery dl {
>>>> margin:0;
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> .gallery br+br {
>>>> display:none;
>>>> }
>>>> *
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Emil
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Syahir Hakim <khairulsyahir at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  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.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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> <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> <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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