[documentation] Manage inconsistency in themes

[Stefan]

Op 10-nov-2005, om 11:35 heeft Bèr Kessels het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:33:09PM -0800, 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.
>
> As a long time CSS lover (hater) i think this is simply impossible. If
> people are really that concerne about cross browser issues of themes,
> they should get a better browser. But above all: they should grok the
> concept of HTML and CSS. for that was NEVER meant to be cross browser
> similar.
>
> Anyway, we could run trough all themes and *validate* them. If not, we
> have a bug. If they do, but they look different on various  
> browsers, the
> browser has a bug. I'd say the latter cases have low priority, since
> they are very hard to fix, often fixing them breaks more then it fixes
> in the end, and more often fixing them instroduces new issues in some
> future.
Isn't it a better idea to let drupal-core validate in the first place?


Stefan

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