[theme-reviewers] Enqueue scripts from CDN

[Josh Pollock]

I agree with that, but it seems to be making a strong case for leaving
CDNs, even with fallbacks and the ability to defeat it, totally to plugins.

We wouldn't allow a theme to get images from a CDN. How is this any
different?


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

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> http://lists.wordpress.org/pipermail/theme-reviewers/2011-November/007434.html
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> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think option set to off by default should be okay.
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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