Hi, What we need to ensure is that people can still continue to write XHTML-valid skins or use existing XHTML skins without problem.
+1 to support only HMTL5 **for the Flamingo skin**. Thanks -Vincent On 8 Apr 2015 at 16:12:02, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > Hello developers. > > I am working on making the HTML 5 code of XWiki valid. But in some places, > I cannot do it without breaking the XHTML validity (which Colibri still > uses, but this skin is going to be deprecated). > > Example: > in XHTML 1.0, the attribute target="_blank", for links, is forbidden. In > XWiki, we have "fixed" this by using the attribute rel="_blank" instead, > and then we have a javascript snippet that dynamically adds the > target="_blank" attribute to these links [1]. So the code is valid until > the javascript is loaded, which is enough to pass our validation tests. > This is not very clean, since the target="_blank" was forbidden by the w3c > because they think it should be the user choice to open a link in a new > window or not. But nobody respects this, and that is why it is no longer > forbidden in HTML5. > > The problem we have, is that the value "_blank" is not authorized anymore > for the "rel" attribute of the links in HTML5. > > So I propose to remove our workaround, which is useless and prohibited for > HTML5. As a consequence, we would lose the XHTML validity (which is > actually the case when javascript is loaded anyway). > > WDYT? > > Guillaume > > [1] The code that looks for ref="_blank": > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-web/src/main/webapp/resources/js/xwiki/xwiki.js#L257 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
