[theme-reviewers] XFN Profile

Wed Jul 16 17:55:23 UTC 2014

Sorry, sent that last email too soon (trying to do a million things at
once).

I also found the same mentioned here
http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-code-quality/ so
assumed when doing the review that it was something that should be
mentioned.

Thanks for clearing it up though and I'll make sure not to mention it again.

Regards,

John

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:50 PM, John Wilson <mail at johnwilsononline.com>
wrote:

> Hi Otto,
>
> I spotted you picked this up on one of my reviews. I found this in the
> Theme Review Guidelines of the Theme Developer Handbook...
> http://make.wordpress.org/docs/theme-developer-handbook/part-four-releasing-your-theme/theme-review-guidelines/#doctype-declaration
>
> John
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> This was pointed out on StackExchange and I found some tickets referring
>> to it:
>>
>> Correct XFN profile link in <head> tag: <head
>> profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"> or <link rel="profile"
>> href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" /> (Exception: Wholly HTML 5 themes
>> must not have the profile, as HTML 5 does not support it.)
>>
>>
>> Where does the last part about HTML 5 come from? Where was this
>> sentence obtained?
>>
>> HTML 5, like all HTML's, ignores things it does not know about.
>> There's nothing I know of that would make "link rel=profile" invalid
>> or incorrect, and there is no reason to omit it from a theme just
>> because hand-wavy-HTML5.
>>
>> I believe this information is incorrect and we should not be giving
>> incorrect information to theme authors. It causes confusion and
>> nitpickiness, especially among those who don't know HTML that well to
>> begin with. All the default themes have the link rel=profile in them
>> for the XFN linkage.
>>
>> -Otto
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