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2012-08-01, 09:11:02
During theme development, I've run into several problems I had to solve by finding a workaround or abandon whole idea.
Implementing font-faces into a template isn't hard, and doesn't take much time.
The problem appears, when implemented font-face doesn't contain proper character sets (cyrilic, unicode etc.).
It's not easy to detect browser's default language (and even after doing it's never 100% reliable) and load proper fonts. There are several other problems, but I just want to make things short.
The only solution for me, was to set a default language for website, and basing on it, load proper things.
But GS doesn't offer this option natively, and I can't force users to mess with GS code to actually let them use the theme properly.
Next thing is pre made content, which is a part of theme's design, but cannot be included in theme, nor shipped with it. This content is provided in GS via components or fixed pages. But none of them can be created automatically by theme. Even if, components aren't standalone files, they can't be left empty, and pages have to have proper URI and meet other requirements.
Both cases concern advanced theme development, so I doubt there will be a huge response.
But to provide an extended theme, a theme creator cannot rely that users will read installation description, understand everything, and just do all things. Most of them doesn't even know what is a CMS.
Implementing font-faces into a template isn't hard, and doesn't take much time.
The problem appears, when implemented font-face doesn't contain proper character sets (cyrilic, unicode etc.).
It's not easy to detect browser's default language (and even after doing it's never 100% reliable) and load proper fonts. There are several other problems, but I just want to make things short.
The only solution for me, was to set a default language for website, and basing on it, load proper things.
But GS doesn't offer this option natively, and I can't force users to mess with GS code to actually let them use the theme properly.
Next thing is pre made content, which is a part of theme's design, but cannot be included in theme, nor shipped with it. This content is provided in GS via components or fixed pages. But none of them can be created automatically by theme. Even if, components aren't standalone files, they can't be left empty, and pages have to have proper URI and meet other requirements.
Both cases concern advanced theme development, so I doubt there will be a huge response.
But to provide an extended theme, a theme creator cannot rely that users will read installation description, understand everything, and just do all things. Most of them doesn't even know what is a CMS.
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