[TYPO3-english] HTML5 & TYPO3

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi Jason,

(Apologies if this is posted twice, but I haven't seen my reply in the
newsgroup, so I think it may be lost in cyberspace)

Jason Lefkowitz wrote:
> For as long as I've been using TYPO3, it has seemed very oriented 
> towards using XHTML as its chosen markup syntax. See, for example, 
> how CONFIG.doctype provides options for setting your site's DOCTYPE 
> declaration to any flavor of XHTML you wish, but does not include 
> options for HTML 4; or how TYPO3 uses XML-style element closures by 
> default (e.g. "<br />" rather than "<br>").

There is one option for HTML4 (Transitional); the default value for
CONFIG.doctype (if you don't set it at all).

But even though the description of this property claims that "the
keywords also change the way TYPO3 generates some of the XHTML tags to
ensure valid XML", setting the doctype to XHTML Strict still results in
links with target attributes...

> Has anyone articulated yet how TYPO3 will be making the move to 
> HTML5, and what work will be required on the part of TYPO3 admins & 
> developers to make that move happen? I've been looking for this kind
> of information but haven't seen it anywhere, so links, suggestions, 
> etc. will be gratefully appreciated...

I found a "discussion" (two postings :-) ) about this on the content
rendering project list:
http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-project-content-rendering/2009-May/001187.html

Doesn't seem to be a priority 1 issue.

On the other hand, when I made new tag-icon-images for TemplaVoila I've
included all HTML4/5 tags I could find (even deprecated tags). In future
versions of TemplaVoila there will be support for a lot more tags (if I
remember correctly even filtered on the (X)HTML version you want).

Maybe it's nice project for you to make CSS-styled content HTML5 compliant.

Regards,

-- 
Jigal van Hemert.