I accidently stumbled across this nice WordPress theme by Rob Goodlatte, which automatically increases/decreases the font size depending on the size of the browser window in order to maintain a sensible and readable line length. I’m still not entirely through modifying it (the CSS is a bit of a mess and I’ve found several inconsistencies throughout the theme) and I’m not quite sure how well the dynamic font size works with regards to accessibility, but what the hell — it’s easy enough to switch back to the old theme again should this turn out to not work as expected, so let’s just give it a go.
Actually, I stumbled across this theme because I had to do an urgent upgrade of WordPress because of a nasty, nasty flaw recently discovered and described on Full Disclosure. Basically it allows anyone to reset the admin password effectively locking out the standard admin user, so if you’re running WordPress, make sure to update to the latest version at once — and upgrading is not that hard. I upgraded from an ancient version without a single problem (that I know of).
Totally digging the flow theme myself, and would like to figure out how to cross-pollenate fixes like your pingback hack. I think I’ve made a few also, and I’d like to see further changes like not totally disabling the site when there’s no JavaScript and something that will adjust the size of my preformatted blocks as well. Not sure what Rob Goodlatte is planning in terms of maintaining Flow, but maybe we need one or more Git repos for this thing? Please let me know what you think.
Well, as I stated in my comments on Rob’s site, I’m not very much into WP theme hacking. At least not yet. I do however know my way around PHP/XHTML/CSS and wouldn’t mind trying to make Flow validate and maybe clean up the code a little. I wasn’t aware that Flow doesn’t work without JavaScript — that’s one hell of a show-stopper in my book and definitely something that needs fixing.
I have subversion set up on this server, so it wouldn’t be a problem to branch the theme and create our own version, but we probably better run this by Rob in case he’d want to incorporate our changes, although he’d always be able to pull them from the svn repo.
Hey honey, you made me decrease my browser window. Other then that i like the simpleness of the theme. Hope to see you soon – what are you doing all this time?
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