On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Jerome, >> >> On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jerome Velociter wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Since we are dropping support for IE6 and IE7, wouldn't it be a good >>> time to switch to the HTML5 doctype [1] ? >>> >>> It would also force IE8 to render in non-compatibility mode (meaning >>> using the IE8 rendering engine), as a good side effect. [2] >>> >>> Maybe we can do this in XE 3.4 ? >>> >>> WDYT ? >> >> Is it going to work with FF 3.6? >> >> Are there recent browsers not supporting (or supporting badly) this HTML5 >> doctype nowadays? > > HTML5 doctype only really affects the triggering of support mode of > browsers (quirks vs. standard). FF 3.6 and others will go just fine, > rendering in standard mode. See > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5629/any-reason-not-to-start-using-the-html-5-doctype > for more. > > One thing we have to keep in mind though is validation. For example > <tt> is deprecated with HTML5, and our XHTML renderer renders the > ##syntax## as <tt>. We might have to introduce a HTML5 renderer to > take care of such differences with XHTML specs.
Yep XHTML renderer is supposed to render only XHTML (and there is already way too much HTML related hacks in it because of IE6 where it should have been done in a different renderer) so if we want to produce HTML5 properly we really need to introduce a HTML5 renderer. > >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> >>> Jerome >>> >>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#Markup >>> [2] http://ejohn.org/blog/html5-doctype/ >>> >>> -- >>> Jérôme Velociter >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > -- > Jérôme Velociter > Winesquare > http://www.winesquare.net/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
