[theme-reviewers] Enqueue scripts from CDN

[Josh Pollock]

@edward I think the important distinction between calling a font from
Google Font and a library from a CDN is that if the browser can't get the
font, it will use a default web font instead, while an unavailable script
will all most always result in failure to function.


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Personally I think "everything the theme calls that doesn't come from
> WordPress core *must* be bundled with the theme" without exception,
> including items such as GoogleFonts for the same reasons that @Otto
> mentioned, the installation may be found where there is potentially no
> direct access to the Internet by the "reader". Although if that is the case
> then the example GoogleFonts call would at worst fall back to the browser
> default(?) which one would hope still keeps the theme "readable" with just
> a loss of aesthetics.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
>
>> Everything the Theme calls that doesn't come from WordPress core *must*
>> be bundled with the Theme.
>>
>> Just about the only exception to that rule is an API call such as
>> GoogleFonts.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Ola Łączek <ola at bodera.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> Is it ok for theme author to enqueue scripts directly from CDN, and not
>>> include them with the theme?
>>> Example: <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js
>>> "></script>
>>> And one more thing - is it ok to put scripts directly in header.php in
>>> conditional IE comments (<!--[if lt IE 9]> <![endif]-->)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Ola Łączek
>>>
>>>
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