[theme-reviewers] Enqueue scripts from CDN

[Emil Uzelac]

http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2011-November/007434.html


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think option set to off by default should be okay.
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> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Something else, can a theme have the option to use a CDN but have it
>> off by default, or is that a no no as well?
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>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > @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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