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diff --git a/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn b/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn index 239474275..ba67d532b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn @@ -9,10 +9,59 @@ HTML5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/). * [ikiwiki instance with HTML5 templates](http://natalian.org) * [HTML5 outliner tool](http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/) -- to check you have the structure of your markup correct +> Kai, thanks enormously for working on this. I switched a page to +> the html5 doctype today, and was rather pleasently suprised that it +> validated, except for the new Cache-Control meta tag. Now I see you're +> well ahead of me. --[[Joey]] +> +> So, how should ikiwiki support html5? There are basically 3 approaches: +> +> 1. Allow users to add html5 tags to their existing xhtml pages. +> What has been done so far, can be extended. Basically works +> in browsers, if you don't care about standards. A good prerequisite +> for anything else, anyway. +> 2. Have both a html5 and a xhtml mode, allow user to select. +> 3. Switch to html5 in eg, ikiwiki 4; users have to deal with +> any custom markup on their pages/templates that breaks then. +> +> The second option seems fairly tractable from what I see here and in +> your branch. You made only relatively minor changes to 10 templates. +> It would probably not be too dreadful to put them in ifdefs. I've made a +> small start at doing that. +> +> I've made ikiwiki use the time element and all the new semantic elements +> in html5 mode. +> +> Other ideas: +> +> * Use details tag instead of the javascript in the toggle plugin. +> (Need to wait on browser support probably.) +> * Use figure and figcaption for captions in img. However, I have not +> managed to style it to look as good as the current table+caption +> approach. +> +> --[[Joey]] + # htmlscrubber.pm needs to not scrub new HTML5 elements * [new elements](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#new-elements) +> Many added now. +> +> Things I left out, too hard to understand today: +> Attributes contenteditable, +> data-\*, draggable, role, aria-\*. +> Tags command, keygen, output. +> +> Clearly unsafe: embed. +> +> Apparently cannot be used w/o javascript: menu. +> +> I have not added the new `ping` attribute, because parsing a +> space-separeated list of urls to avoid javascript injection is annoying, +> and the attribute seems generally dubious. +> --[[Joey]] + # HTML5 Validation and t/html.t [validator.nu](http://validator.nu/) is the authorative HTML5 validator, @@ -25,6 +74,9 @@ In the future, hopefully ikiwiki can test for valid HTML5 using [Relax NG schema](http://syntax.whattf.org/) using a Debian package tool [rnv](http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rnv.html). +> Validation in the test suite is nice, but I am willing to lose those +> tests for a while. --[[Joey]] + # HTML5 migration issues # [article](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-article-element) element @@ -37,6 +89,8 @@ This element is poorly supported by browsers. As a workaround, `style.css` needs Internet Explorer will display it as a block, though you can't seem to be able to further control the style. +> done (needed for header too) --[[Joey]] + ## Time element 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 by a template variable with what [HTML5 defines as a valid datetime string](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#valid-global-date-and-time-string). @@ -45,3 +99,19 @@ As a workaround: au:~% grep timeformat natalian.setup timeformat => '%Y-%m-%d', + +> Also, the [[plugins/relativedate]] plugin needs to be updated to +> support relatatizing the contents of time elements. --[[Joey]] + +> Done and done; in html5 mode it uses the time tag, and even +> adds pubdate when displaying ctimes. --[[Joey]] + +## tidy plugin + +Will reformat html5 to html4. + +---- + + +Ok, I consider this [[done]], at least as a first pass. Html5 mode +is experimental, but complete enough. --[[Joey]] |