+1 Thanks, Marius
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > Some months ago, I created a topic about switching to HTML5 [1]. One of my > concerns was that we currently use custom meta tags to store XWiki > metadata, such as the current space, the current page, etc... [2]. These > meta tags are not allowed anymore in HTML5 so we need to remove them. > > In this topic, you suggested some good ideas and I am making this proposal > to recap them. > > 1/ Remove the invalid meta tags from the HTML, so it will pass our HTML > validation tools. > 2/ Put them back, dynamically, with JavaScript, on the client-side, to > ensure retro-compatibility (and before any other script is started), > because some extensions can rely on them. Also, they will be deprecated. > 3/ Store the meta-data that we need in the <html> tag, via the data-* > property that HTML5 allows. The prefix "xwiki" should be used to not > collide with other extensions. > > For example: > <html data-xwiki-space="the-current-space" > data-xwiki-form-token="the-token" ...> > > 4/ Create a JS service that looks for this information and return them to > other script. So if you change again the way we store the metadata, it > won't break the extensions. This service should also be loaded before other > scripts, and should be available to all scripts (which use jQuery, > Prototype, or something else). > > For example: > XWiki.getMetadata('space') (without the prefix) > XWiki.getMetadata('form-token') > > Or it could be: > XWiki.getSpace() > XWiki.getFormToken() > > Actually I don't know how will be the implementation details yet, but I > just would like to have your agreement on the principle. > > WDYT? > > Thanks, > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/4yhdlcxswbqdg3wv ([Proposal] Use HTML5 in > Flamingo) > [2] > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/22ae6ec5b0ab3125486a0f55ab76cebe329e6da2/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-flamingo/xwiki-platform-flamingo-skin/src/main/resources/flamingo/htmlheader.vm#L76 > (XWiki metadata) > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
