On 22.03.2011, 19:05 Joseph wrote:

> Hello!

> What is the current concensus on HTML5?
> Are we going to fully support it and use as many features as we can or
> are we going to keep just using javascript alterntives?
> I would assume that we would continue to use javascript in the case
> that the client does not support HTML5, though that may mean we have
> to write things twice.
> Also, if we are indeed going to use HTML5, are we going to use XHTML5?
> I would like to work on integrating MediaWiki with HTML5 if at all
> possible, I am just unsure on what parts we wish to use the new
> standard.

As the matter of fact, MediaWiki serves HTML5 by default. The only
reason why it is still not enabled on Wikipedia is backward
compatibility with numerous screen-scraping scripts/tools. However,
they had their last warning recently - HTML5 was briefly enabled a
couple of times and there's no guarantee that next time it will not
stick :D

-- 
Best regards,
  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])


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