[theme-reviewers] Enqueue scripts from CDN

[Emil Uzelac]

Is there a reliable public service for that?


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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