Updates for the Chunk Theme

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    jonathanrmayer · Member ·

    Two friendly suggestions for minor updates to the Chunk theme.

    1) The current CSS loads the normal weight version of “Oswald” from Google Web Fonts:

    <link rel=”stylesheet” id=”oswald-css” href=”http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald&ver=3.4-beta3″ type=”text/css” media=”all”>

    Headings are styled with this normal weight Oswald and “font-weight: bold”. Some browsers gracefully render the font with increased weight; others (including Firefox on Mac OS X) produce an ugly result. A simple fix would be to also load the (new-ish) bold Oswald from Google Web Fonts, replacing the old stylesheet reference with something like:

    <link rel=”stylesheet” id=”oswald-css” href=”http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,700″ type=”text/css” media=”all”>

    I’ve verified that fixes the problem in Firefox on Mac OS X.

    2) Internet Explorer 10 finally includes vendor-prefixed support for CSS3 linear gradients. The current style includes:

    body{
    …
    background-image:-moz-linear-gradient( rgba(0,0,0,0.22), rgba(255,255,255,0) 80px );
    background-image:-webkit-linear-gradient( rgba(0,0,0,0.22), rgba(255,255,255,0) 80px );
    …
    }

    It’s now possible to add:

    background-image:-ms-linear-gradient( rgba(0,0,0,0.22), rgba(255,255,255,0) 80px );

    You might also add the Opera vendor-prefixed version and the proposed W3C version:

    background-image:-o-linear-gradient( rgba(0,0,0,0.22), rgba(255,255,255,0) 80px );
    background-image:linear-gradient( rgba(0,0,0,0.22), rgba(255,255,255,0) 80px );

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Wrong forum, and this should be posted on the theme designer’s website, not on the this, or the wordpress.ORG websites. WordPress has nothing to do with building or updating the theme you are using, and we can’t use Google fonts here.

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    jonathanrmayer · Member ·

    These are bugs in an as-is WordPress.com theme.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    What is the URL of the site you are talking about?

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Ok, I just looked at the source on the demo page and see the google fonts reference. I also see what Firefox does to the font. Not nice.

  • michiecat · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Thank you for the suggestions. I will pass them along to the team and if we decide to implement any of them we’ll let you know.

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    thetechrantguy · Member ·

    Any update on this thread? It still looks appalling in Firefox!

    Cheers :)

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