[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47708: 5.3 about page

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#47708: 5.3 about page
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 Reporter:  karmatosed      |       Owner:  johnbillion
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  reviewing
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  5.3
Component:  Help/About      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by afercia):

 > I thought comment:51 is a good reasoning for keeping them as is.

 I kindly disagree :) I had the opportunity to outline the same concerns
 with Gutenberg as well. No objections to changing the coding standards if
 that's desired. But, until they ask to avoid underscores WordPress should
 just avoid underscores.

 Standards are just that: standards :) I'm surprised that in more than 2
 years and a half since Gutenberg started using underscores, no one took
 action and proposed an update to the CSS coding standards. A proposal on
 Make outlining the value for a new syntax should then be published for
 public discussion, gather feedback, and be discussed.

 I like to think every contributor to WordPress aims to make this software
 more professional. I'm not sure I can understand how not following the
 standards the project itself formalized across the years can be considered
 professional.

 Personally, I could also share some of the reasons listed in comment:51
 but that doesn't change the fact underscores go against the current
 standards. Deliberately ignoring the current standards sends a very wrong
 message to all the contributors to this project and basically says "you
 can safely ignore any standards and code as you like": all you need to do
 is mentioning some reasons for that in a ticket comment :)

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