David Scotson

It's not just the scores that can be biased in these things, it's also the choice of what you consider worthy of getting a score e.g. "having to write it yourself" would be 0/10 for Atto, and 10/10 for using an existing library, (as would "having to test it yourself", "having to document it yourself", "having to maintain accessibility compliance yourself" etc. though again the person writing the table gets to choose whether those are four different things, or collapsed into one, or not present at all).

That post is quite old ("Posted on September 30th, 2008") which is a lifetime in web design. As the update (from Jan 2011) says, updates to newer versions of IE made pixels less of an issue, so it's more a matter of preference.

Also, the decision to vary font sizes for mobile devices, and what unit is used to specify the size are two distinct issues. For whatever reason here in the Moodle Theme forums the two issues have become very intertwined, but I'm not sure why that is.

The bootstrap devs looked into rem and decided it wasn't ready for their usage yet.

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6801

I think the main blocker was if you still need to support IE8, and it doesn't support rem, then you're doing the same work twice.

This is from the Clean theme that Essential inherits from I think. I found that the drag'n'drop stuff was entirely broken on touch devices so this was a hacky way to work around that issue. There was some dispute about whether the problems with the drag'n'drop were actually happening or not though.

See MDL-38371 for more info.

Hi Tom,

Julian mentioned in this thread (https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=241585) that he was still working on this feature but it wasn't ready yet.