[documentation] Manage inconsistency in themes

Boris Mann boris at bryght.com
Wed Nov 9 23:49:55 UTC 2005


On 9-Nov-05, at 3:33 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

> On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Richard Archer wrote:
>
>> Does the theme have bugs in display?
>>
>> Does the theme have cross-browser problems?
>>
>> Do two themes I want to use put elements in different and
>> inconsistent place on the screen?
>
> Based on feedback we believe it is these three.  We can still go  
> back and do some more research, but a quick review of bugs posted  
> against these themes and discussions with themers make it clear.

I think I've said this before. I'm not averse to have a FAQ for these  
questions...but they are absolutely out of scope for Drupal, since  
they are mainly CSS/browser bugs (i.e. it's not anything in Drupal  
itself). I realize that this IS the user interface for what most  
people deal with, so it is a high pain issue, but I see us having a  
very hard time actually solving anything.

One thing I would like to suggest is a focus on verifying/marking  
themes as compliant. e.g. Bluemarine, box grey, etc. (base, but  
somewhat crappy themes) work perfectly across browsers. Many themes  
that use high degrees of CSS-fu will/are plagued by continuing cross- 
browser issues and/or workarounds. Maybe just update the description  
of these theme projects to indicate as such? If themers used box grey  
or bluemarine as a base to develop further themes, perhaps we would  
have less issues. In some ways, that is what the base CS theme is  
trying to do BUT it is too complex for the average person to just  
extend slightly. A really nice, bare bones, tableless CSS PHPTemplate  
would go a long way....

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