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]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
