On Dec 5, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Jerome Velociter 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.
FTR I had created this some time ago: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XRENDERING-137 So while I agree to move to HTML5 as soon as we can, we need to be careful to list all possible issues and fix them first. Thanks -Vincent >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> >>> Jerome _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
