Some elements of
HTML5 can be
safely supported by ikiwiki. There are several differences between HTML4 and
HTML5.
[[!template id=gitbranch branch=hendry/html5 author="[[Kai_Hendry|hendry]]"]]
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:
- 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.
- Have both a html5 and a xhtml mode, allow user to select.
- 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.)
--[[Joey]]
htmlscrubber.pm needs to not scrub new HTML5 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 is the authorative HTML5 validator,
however it is almost impossible to sanely introduce as a build dependency
because of its insane Java requirements. :( I test locally via
cURL, though Debian packages cannot be built
with a network dependency.
In the future, hopefully ikiwiki can test for valid HTML5 using Relax NG
schema using a Debian package tool
rnv.
Validation in the test suite is nice, but I am willing to lose those
tests for a while. --[[Joey]]
HTML5 migration issues
This element is poorly supported by browsers. As a workaround, style.css needs:
article {
display: block;
}
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 ideally needs the datatime= attribute set by a template variable with what HTML5 defines as a valid datetime string.
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.
