[theme-reviewers] Newbie theme reviewer question - Browser compatability
Paul Appleyard
paul at spacecat.com
Fri Feb 1 07:13:09 UTC 2013
Any new browser-centric requirements would hit a limitation on what
browser the reviewer uses, or can use. So there's a built-in restriction
on browser support, in that it must support the reviewer's browser,
which is very likely a recent Chrome or Firefox iteration.
I guess it (theme-specified browser requirements) would also come in to
play as an issue if the theme author is implementing some pretty
specific Javascript or HTML5 (some advanced canvas manipulation stuff
for example, although Excanvas helps there too with IE7/8) And that's
bleeding in to plugin territory, really.
To sum up: If it doesn't break in a way to fail on existing guidelines,
let it be. Therefore, the only amendment to review guidelines would be
that testing be done in an up-to-date browser; is that requirement in
there already?
Paul
On 1/02/2013 2:43 PM, Justin Tadlock wrote:
> I'm pretty much in agreement with Chip.
>
> My personal rule in regards to IE is to support the 2 latest versions,
> which are currently 9 and 10.
>
> On 1/31/2013 7:03 PM, Chip Bennett 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 <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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