Fun with Habari: Should Habari themes use HTML5? - Fun with Habari
RealVermin
· 11 months ago
I'm for it, I think it would put us at an advantage.
Andrew Rickmann
· 11 months ago
Is that because of being first or because it offers real values in the short term?
ringmaster
· 10 months ago
I'm not sure there is an immediate benefit to using HTML5, since as you pointed out, it's not completely supported by all of the browsers (at least, not as well as browsers support HTML4).
That said, we're going to be working on theme support in 0.7, which should start development reasonably soon. And we can give some more thought to how themers can support HTML 4 and 5, and perhaps even XHTML for those who want to render real XML-valid markup or simply want to output the same old potentially invalid XHTML on HTML that WordPress does (for whatever insane reason that might be).
So in my mind, it's not so much a choice to use and endorse HTML5 as it is making sure that Habari users can render the format of output that they think is best for their own site.
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That said, we're going to be working on theme support in 0.7, which should start development reasonably soon. And we can give some more thought to how themers can support HTML 4 and 5, and perhaps even XHTML for those who want to render real XML-valid markup or simply want to output the same old potentially invalid XHTML on HTML that WordPress does (for whatever insane reason that might be).
So in my mind, it's not so much a choice to use and endorse HTML5 as it is making sure that Habari users can render the format of output that they think is best for their own site.