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

[Kirk Wight]

I think it might be a slippery slope. As long as it's clear in the
description what is supported by the theme, I don't think we need to force
a certain level of support.

And what is "support" anyways? Does everything have to work? Look the same?
Kind of the same? Mostly work?..

I wouldn't want someone with a super creative and forward-thinking approach
to a theme get turned away because their HTML5/CSS3 stuff doesn't
work/isn't even supported in a browser that we require.

That said, maybe a "recommendation" of IE9 and up, with special
consideration if justified?


On 31 January 2013 22:35, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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