[theme-reviewers] Enqueue scripts from CDN

[Daniel]

The issue is that if someone use that theme on a network with no
internet, it just not going to work, and I don't think you can use
that to get around licensing issues.






On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Matt Beall <mbeall at starverte.com> wrote:
> So a theme shouldn't enqueue a CDN? I don't understand the reasoning behind
> this, but I am also wondering because my theme enqueues a CDN of Bootstrap.
> CDNs solve a lot of licensing issues and also decrease the size of a theme
> package. But if we shouldn't use CDNs, please let me know.
>
> Matt Beall
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>   1. Re: Enqueue scripts from CDN (Edward Caissie)
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> From: Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Enqueue scripts from CDN
> Date: August 7, 2013 5.32.02 am MDT
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> @Josh - Yes, I recognized the font would have a fallback safety net of the
> browser default font (at worst), but since it is so easy to bundle a
> GoogleFont with a theme I see no reason to call it outside of the theme.
> It's a very specific example but true none the less.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:49 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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