On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Joseph Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the current concensus on HTML5?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/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? We're fine with using HTML5 features wherever possible, if $wgHtml5 is true. Whether we need JavaScript fallback follows from the general principle of graceful degradation -- if the user experience is still acceptable without the HTML5 feature being supported, fallback is not mandatory. > Also, if we are indeed going to use HTML5, are we going to use XHTML5? No. XHTML5 is fragile and provides no practical benefits over well-formed HTML5. Instead, we will continue to serve text/html but try to keep it well-formed when possible, as we always have. > 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. We're happy to use anything that's useful. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 The goal is currently to enable HTML5 on Wikimedia sites without breaking screen-scrapers that use XML libraries. (Screen-scrapers that use regex can drop dead.) I made some fixes a while back and tagged them to be picked up by Wikimedia, so hopefully the Wikimedia branch can now try turning on HTML5 mode again. If it still causes well-formedness errors, I'd really need to know the exact URLs to figure out what they are. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
