doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn



Some elements of HTML5 can be safely supported by ikiwiki. There are several differences between HTML4 and HTMl5. Unsupported new elements should degrade gracefully.
However as an 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 for clues on how to proceed.

Initial patch

I'm unsure how to turn off the test validation by the very old wdg-html-validator. 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.
validator.nu incidentally is the 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.
Notes

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.
Many of the header <span>s should be proper header elements