2009/7/10 David Gerard <[email protected]> > Plans for shifting Wikimedia to HTML5, probably starting with en:wp Main > Page. > > (Simetrical is quite keen on this change, as apart from anything else > it'll cut our served page size *after gzipping* by 5-20%.) > > HTML5 is the new HTML standard. It's specifically been written be > backward compatible with most of the horrible quirks in all past > browsers - it's a vendor-driven standard - and now it's the W3C > official future of HTML. So nothing should break for anyone. Note > provisions in below plan in case something does. > > > - d. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Aryeh Gregor > <[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]> > > > Date: 2009/7/10 > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal: switch to HTML 5 > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > > Apparently something ate my last post here. (I think it was my > Chromium nightly build.) Okay, reposting from memory: > > After discussion with Brion on IRC, I've provisionally enabled an HTML > 5 doctype in r53034: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/53034 > > My thoughts on what we should do in the immediate future are: > > 1) Get at least the enwiki Main Page set up so it will validate as > HTML 5 when we scap: > < > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=HTML5&group=0 > > > > 1a) Remove border="0" from Wikimedia's $wgCopyrightIcon (it does > nothing anyway). > > 1b) Rope some enwiki sysops into getting rid of all cellpadding, > cellspacing, align, and clear attributes on the Main Page (converting > them to CSS). > > 2) Scap (whenever this happens -- maybe not so immediate future :) ). > > 3) Wait a couple of hours to see if anything breaks. > > 4) Make a tech blog post and post a notice to the whatwg list (I'll do > this). We'll have our front page validating as HTML 5 at this point, > hopefully, to make a more positive impact. > > 5) See what happens! > > I expect this will pick up some interest, since we'll probably be > increasing the number of HTML 5 page views by a factor of -- oh, ten > thousand? (Is there any top *1000* site that uses HTML 5 for all its > primary content?) We can see how things develop, and if all goes well > start using more HTML 5 features. > > I'd recommend that until the code goes live, this should be considered > an *experimental* *development* change. People shouldn't go around > announcing this everywhere until it's actually live. For one thing, > some unknown problem might crop up and we'd have to temporarily roll > back, which would cause confusion and bad press for both us and HTML > 5. For another thing, it would be nice if we could link to a > validating main page in the announcement. I'm sure people can hold > off posting stories to Slashdot for a week or two, right? :) > If we can do it, this sounds like a great idea. Forgive my ignorance though, but what does "scap" mean?
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