+1 On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea <[email protected]> wrote: > +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
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