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author | http://hendry.iki.fi/ <http://hendry.iki.fi/@web> | 2009-05-17 18:02:20 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2009-05-17 18:02:20 -0400 |
commit | 279ac3068a53175ddfa2ea112cc5f7fde2a21273 (patch) | |
tree | ec780b0a709a2d57705ff3c1d037197b8ea3ee5e /doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn | |
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what i've learnt from doing natalian today
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn b/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn index 88c4fd4e6..09ded91da 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/html5_support.mdwn @@ -3,28 +3,8 @@ Some elements of safely supported by ikiwiki. There are [several differences between HTML4 and HTML5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/). -> In the `origin/html` branch, there is an old work in progress to make -> ikiwiki use html 4 instead of xhtml. If that could be brought forward and -> finished then the plan has been to switch ikiwiki over to doing html 4. -> I don't think it makes sense to try to make it support both xhtml and -> html, it would complicate the code for no benefit. -> -> I think that is the best route toward supporting html 5 as well. Get -> ikiwiki doing html 4 first and the changes needed to get to 5 from there -> should be small. Probably just changing some doctypes and a few other -> small changes which could be kept in a branch, or even shipped in ikiwiki -> mainline as an alternate set of templates. Some of the changes, like -> supporting new html 5 tags in the htmlscrubber, can be done in mainline. -> (Like was already done for the html 5 video and audio tags.) -> -> This approach seems much more maintainable going foward than rolling a -> html 5 branch immediatly and trying to keep that continually up-to-date -> with mainline ikiwiki that is still using xhtml. --[[Joey]] - ->> TODO Still need to merge origin/html with my html5 branch. - * [HTML5 branch](http://git.webconverger.org/?p=ikiwiki;h=refs/heads/html5) -* [test ikiwiki instance with HTML5 templates](http://h.dabase.com/html5/) +* [ikiwiki instance with HTML5 templates](http://natalian.org) # HTML5 Validation and t/html.t @@ -38,19 +18,27 @@ In the future, hopefully ikiwiki can test for valid HTML5 using [Relax NG schema](http://syntax.whattf.org/) using a Debian package tool [rnv](http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rnv.html). -# Issues +# HTML5 migration issues -## Time element +# [article](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-article-element) element -The [time element](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element) ideally needs the datatime= attribute set by a template variable with what [HTML5 defines as a valid datetime string](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#valid-global-date-and-time-string). +This element is poorly supported by browsers. As a workaround, `style.css` needs: -As a workaround I use in my setup file: + article { + display: block; + } - timeformat => '%Y-%m-%d', +Internet Explorer will display it as a block, though you can't seem to be further control the style. + +# Validator complains with no h1-h6 in header -## Header +* [#509](http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=509) -Many of the header `<span>`s should be proper [header elements](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-and-h6-elements) - > See [[todo/Option_to_make_title_an_h1__63__]] for why not. --[[Joey]] +## Time element + +The [time element](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element) ideally needs the datatime= attribute set by a template variable with what [HTML5 defines as a valid datetime string](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#valid-global-date-and-time-string). -The [header element](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-header-element) requires a h1-h6 child, in order to [validate](http://validator.nu/). Hence in my [html5 page templates](http://git.webconverger.org/?p=ikiwiki;a=tree;f=templates;hb=refs/heads/html5), I've marked up page title with a h1. +As a workaround: + + au:~% grep timeformat natalian.setup + timeformat => '%Y-%m-%d', |