[theme-reviewers] XFN Profile

Wed Jul 16 17:56:46 UTC 2014

Thanks, Otto!

Edward Caissie
aka Cais.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I just found that after a bit of searching. Looks like
> this statement has existed for some time. Dunno where it originally
> came from though.
>
> I'm editing that handbook page to remove that last sentence. It's clearly
> untrue and should not be allowed to continue further.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:50 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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> >
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> >
> >
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