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Scott

Fine question. Probably shouldn’t have had to ask.

The major change is that the skins menu is gone. Just copy and paste the style.css file. Or @import it.

Also, fixed some bugs like the home link not working when a static page was being displayed. And also fixed required fields not showing as required when not required (thanks, Adam.)

There was a missing closing div in the comments.php when it was password-protected. Fixed.

Added language_attributes() function, but parsed it so it works in WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.2.x.

There are some new classes.

For the body element:

• .postid-X for single posts, .pageid-X for pages
• .paged-X (also .single-paged-X, .category-paged-X, etc.) for paginations of the index, category archives, etc.
• author name-based classes now work consistently across WP 2.0.x through 2.2.x

For the post div element:

• .protected and .private classes per post/page settings
• author name-based classes now work consistently across WP 2.0.x through 2.2.x

There are some class changes:

• revised the structure and classes for what was #globalnav and .access
• .category-link is .cat-links, .comment-link is .comments-link and many other class name revisions for consistency
• Reworked the structure of comments.php; fewer classes, but oddly many, many more options

There are also lots of Microformats-related improvements:

• use/appropriate use of rel="home" and rel="me"
• improved hCard support that parses correctly throughout, e.g., post and comment authors
• improved hAtom support (moved .hfeed class, so tags/categories outside of .hentry get picked up as global tags/categories)
• added .author to author.php per hAtom spec

So I’d be grateful for any suggestions for semantic-improvement of the Sandbox. I’m really interested in making this the best possible markup. And perhaps I’ve been piddling in the code too long now.

Scott

Precisely, Nate. Later on you can cite this very thread as your influence on Sandbox development.

Scott

Yes, the link to the source is above. And now, below:

Sandbox source

I eagerly await input. After all, the Sandbox is the “themers’ theme”, so it’s best that I get their feedback.

I’ve already made one decision that isn’t reflected in that source. According to XFN, rel-me is implicit when the link points to a sub directory, so my current use of this (see author.php and index.php) isn’t appropriate and will be removed.

Scott

What kind of hiccups? Do explain.

Scott

I think you’re right, Adam. I did delete a few » (like in the submit button) but I’m hesitant to remove them all. I’m on the fence about them. If I zap those, then I really should zap the meta-sep elements.

The entry-author was completely unnecessary. I decided to make all those ‘post meta’ classes more semantic and I really was out to trim as much fat as possible.

I’m also going to make another class for trackback comments, eg, t[n], for counting trackbacks. You’ll see it in the readme.html, but it hasn’t made its way to the theme files yet.

Also, there’s also category-paged-[n], date-paged-[n], etc., for paginated indexes.

I’ve been reading up on hAtom, and I found out that if the hfeed element contains rel="tag" elements outside an hentry, then those are considered like category feed for the whole blog, semantically. I think that change is really promising.

Also, I haven’t bothered to update any of the skins yet, which I will do this weekend. Look for a release in the next few days. It’s almost there.

I have also removed most hardcoded rel="me", because I read that they are implicit when pointing to a subdirectory.

adam

releases are good. SVN isn’t complicated, but it sure sounds scary.

meta-sep elements can be handled in CSS. the angled quotes can’t. maybe they should have their own <span />?

Zeo

I see xoxo

Did you notice that it’s required that Entry Author (hAtom) to be encoded with address.

Anyway, right on time. Let me know when the new version is release.

Ben

Totally off topic, but what text editor are you using?

Thanks,
Ben