Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-17 Thread Dave Pawson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:25:24 -0400 rob.cavicc...@emc.com wrote: ill using it. The HTML5 specification isn't scheduled to become a recommendation until 2022. Where've you seen that Rob? So HTML5 as a replacement for the current HTML output types certainly does not appear to be a viable

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-17 Thread rob.cavicchio
Dave Pawson [mailto:da...@dpawson.co.uk] wrote: The HTML5 specification isn't scheduled to become a recommendation until 2022. Where've you seen that Rob? Going back and re-reading it more carefully, I see that it is more of an estimate provided by one person, so scheduled was a

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Dave Pawson
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:35:42 +0200 Jirka Kosek ji...@kosek.cz wrote: Dave Pawson wrote: I'm curious why you are so anti? I'm not anti, I'm trying to be pragmatic. And I don't see what advantages can bring HTML5 output generated from DocBook to end users. Would you argue against all

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Dave Pawson
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:35:13 -0700 Bob Stayton b...@sagehill.net wrote: When I go to the W3C website, I see that HTML5 is only in the stage of W3C Working Draft as of 24 June 2010. If we are going to implement support for HTML5, it should be on an experimental level, no? Bob Stayton

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Jirka Kosek
Dave Pawson wrote: These elements are not supported in IE6/7 and they can't be CSS styled there without using supplement Javascript library. That doesn't make sense to me Jirka. They are elements, CSS can be used, why not? If the fallback does no harm in ancient browsers, whats the

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Ring
] Sent: 15. august 2010 23:51 To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target On Sunday, August 15, 2010 02:35:42 pm Jirka Kosek wrote: structure navigation These elements are not supported in IE6/7 and they can't be CSS styled

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Larry Garfield
On Monday, August 16, 2010 01:59:44 am Jirka Kosek wrote: Larry Garfield wrote: These elements are not supported in IE6/7 and they can't be CSS styled there without using supplement Javascript library. So? That doesn't mean they are valueless. There's nothing wrong with using those

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Keith Fahlgren
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Dave Pawson da...@dpawson.co.uk wrote: Anyway those elements doesn't bring any new user experience. But they do bring better semantics? I think the rejection of a DocBook-XSL patch adding a distinct HTML5 output (perhaps in the

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Jirka Kosek
Larry Garfield wrote: div class=nav then nav + some funky Javascript But nav without needing JS is better still. So for those producers that choose to use it, their HTML5-supporting users will get a superior experience Superior experience from nav? Could you elaborate please? So

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Jirka Kosek
Keith Fahlgren wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Dave Pawson da...@dpawson.co.uk wrote: Anyway those elements doesn't bring any new user experience. But they do bring better semantics? I think the rejection of a DocBook-XSL patch adding a distinct HTML5 output (perhaps in the

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Dave Pawson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:00:06 +0200 Jirka Kosek ji...@kosek.cz wrote: unctionality there is no reason for switching to HTML5. Better SEO through more semantic markup seems like a perfectly good bit of functionality to me. ROTFL More seriously, are you aware of any search engine which

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Dave Pawson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:10:51 +0200 Jirka Kosek ji...@kosek.cz wrote: What's real advantage of using: article + above show funky Javascript over completely static and proven: div class=article ? To my knowledge there is no single real advantage OK, you've made your point Jirka.

RE: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread rob.cavicchio
Larry Garfield [mailto:la...@garfieldtech.com] wrote: That varies widely depending on your market. The main site I use DocBook for is 50% Firefox users and less than 2% IE 6; A few months ago I officially announced that our software doesn't care about IE 6 any more, and I'm not really going

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-16 Thread Larry Garfield
On Monday, August 16, 2010 10:25:24 am rob.cavicc...@emc.com wrote: The HTML5 specification isn't scheduled to become a recommendation until 2022. That's something of a red herring. By W3C rules it can't become a recommendation until at least 2 complete implementations exist in the wild.

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-15 Thread Dave Pawson
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:19:09 +0200 Jirka Kosek ji...@kosek.cz wrote: Jochen Hayek wrote: How many new features of HTML5 our DocBook might even make use of, mentioning HTML5 *is* a *factor*. You should be aware of that. No offense, but I suggest you to study HTML5 and its support in

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-15 Thread Bob Stayton
When I go to the W3C website, I see that HTML5 is only in the stage of W3C Working Draft as of 24 June 2010. If we are going to implement support for HTML5, it should be on an experimental level, no? Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-15 Thread Jirka Kosek
Dave Pawson wrote: I'm curious why you are so anti? I'm not anti, I'm trying to be pragmatic. And I don't see what advantages can bring HTML5 output generated from DocBook to end users. Would you argue against all its features: A11y Do you have idea how and when DocBook markup should be

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: html 5, as a target

2010-08-15 Thread Larry Garfield
On Sunday, August 15, 2010 02:35:42 pm Jirka Kosek wrote: structure navigation These elements are not supported in IE6/7 and they can't be CSS styled there without using supplement Javascript library. So? That doesn't mean they are valueless. There's nothing wrong with using those