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diff --git a/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn b/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn index 806454bcb..fe70a08d1 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,36 @@ Some elements of [HTML5](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/) can be safely supported by ikiwiki. There are [several differences between HTML4 and HTMl5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/). Unsupported new elements _should degrade gracefully_. +> In the `origin/html` branch, there is an old work in progress to make +> ikiwiki use html 4 instead of xhtml. If that could be brought forward and +> finished then the plan has been to switch ikiwiki over to doing html 4. +> I don't think it makes sense to try to make it support both xhtml and +> html, it would complicate the code for no benefit. +> +> I think that is the best route toward supporting html 5 as well. Get +> ikiwiki doing html 4 first and the changes needed to get to 5 from there +> should be small. Probably just changing some doctypes and a few other +> small changes which could be kept in a branch, or even shipped in ikiwiki +> mainline as an alternate set of templates. Some of the changes, like +> supporting new html 5 tags in the htmlscrubber, can be done in mainline. +> (Like was already done for the html 5 video and audio tags.) +> +> This approach seems much more maintainable going foward than rolling a +> html 5 branch immediatly and trying to keep that continually up-to-date +> with mainline ikiwiki that is still using xhtml. --[[Joey]] + However as an [early adopter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_adopter) I would like to start using HTML5 as much as possible. The more pragmatic solution would be to use elements supported by the browsers of your readership I guess. I'm following other early adopters like [Anne](http://annevankesteren.nl/) for clues on how to proceed. * [Initial patch](http://git.webconverger.org/?p=ikiwiki;a=commit;h=2e2bb3f74f5000b1269142d6f9bdf1bcb4075ca4) +> I can't figure out how to pull from this repository. + + joey@gnu:~/tmp>git clone git://webconverger.org/git/ikiwiki.git + Initialized empty Git repository in /home/joey/tmp/ikiwiki/.git/ + fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly + +> Assuming I got the url right.. your gitweb claims it's +> `git://webconverger.org/git/iceweasel-webconverger.git` --[[Joey]] + I'm unsure how to turn off the test validation by the very old [wdg-html-validator](http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wdg-html-validator.html). So I have been unable to test my initial patches as I can't build ikiwiki. I would like to know how to edit the rules/Makefile to temporarily disable this. > Don't run ¨make test" ... --[[Joey]] @@ -15,4 +42,7 @@ I'm unsure how to turn off the test validation by the very old [wdg-html-validat * the [time element](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element) ideally needs the datatime= attribute set with iso8601 time * I suspect the migration to the new semantic elements of HTML5 like article, header & footer to take some time, due to browser support. Though they sure make the template code look much nicer. * `<br>` and too many `<div>`s usually indicates poor semantics. + > YMMV, but I tend to find that kind of concern counterproductive. + > --[[Joey]] * Many of the header `<span>`s should be proper [header elements](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-and-h6-elements) + > See [[todo/Option_to_make_title_an_h1__63__]] for why not. --[[Joey]] |