[theme-reviewers] Newbie theme reviewer question - Browser compatability

[Edward Caissie]

Flatly not supporting one of the most commonly found browsers (not
necessarily used but it does come with Windows) is not a very good idea;
and although we do not have any specific guidelines in place I think if a
Theme Author is going that route something that significant should be in
the Theme description.

As it is, you would be better served by asking the Theme author to explain
that statement before making any assumptions. As noted, it may only be that
they are supporting current versions of IE and simply left off the version
number in their readme file.

Myself, for general distribution themes, I only support current (or one
version back at the most) browsers. I don't state the actual version only
making reference to the browser being current. Of course, client work is
generally different but those "rules" do not necessarily apply here.

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:12 PM, John Heimkes IV <john at heimk.es> wrote:

> That's a great question, actually. I'd like to know what the general
> consensus is on this matter. Don't worry about being fussy. I've been doing
> front-end for many years. So, I totally get it.
>
> My personal opinion is if they're not going to support certain browsers
> (aka, the browsers most of us web developers have to support on a daily
> basis), the author *should* make it known up front - especially in the
> CSS file for good documentation purposes. Some sort of clarification from
> the author would be nice in this case. Maybe they're just not supporting
> older versions of IE and it looks fine in IE10, and maybe even IE9.
>
> Anyway, I hope someone else has a better answer!
>
> Thanks,
> John Heimkes IV
>
> On Jan 31, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since IE has at least 30% browser share, I think theme has to support it.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Alex Watson <alex at alexwatson.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> So I'm reviewing my first theme, and a few mins into it I find this in
>> the readme.txt:
>>
>> * NOT SUPPORTED on Internet Explore *
>>
>> Is that okay? Are themes allowed to be built and not work in IE at all?
>> It's probably the fussy web developer side of me coming out here, as
>> everything I do has to work in IE8+ :) I've not got so far as to have
>> tested it in IE yet, but are we even required to do cross browser testing?
>> I think we should, but I can't see that in the review guidelines anywhere.
>>
>> Anyway, please let me know if I'm just being too fussy here! (and sorry
>> if this has been asked before but I just joined this mailing list a couple
>> of days ago)
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Alex
>>
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