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

[Chip Bennett]

Probably a good discussion topic for Make/Themes?


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:

> There should be a guideline about this. Latest browsers need to be
> supported.
>
> I personally don't like or use IE, but that doesn't mean that I can
> "dictate" the
> browser usage.
>
> If this was IE7, IE8, fine, no problem, heck let's say even IE9, but to
> say IE9+
>
> Just my 2¢ that's all :)
>
> Emil
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> I have no problem with it. A properly developed and designed Theme should
>> have minimal IE issues anymore, anyway.
>>
>> I don't "support" IE with my Theme, either. I can't; I use Linux, and
>> thus have no way of even *running* IE.
>>
>> Doing something that actively *excludes* IE (or any other browser) would
>> certainly not be acceptable; but developing a standards-compliant Theme,
>> and opting not to jump through hoops for IE? Meh; doesn't bother me all
>> that much.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> 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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