[TYPO3-content-rendering] BLE, core and HTML5

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Patrick,

> As you might know I'm working on the accessibility part for the
> frontend, mostly css_styled_content. The people at the BLE made clear
> they are very interested in the use of HTML5.
>
> As TYPO3 core we need to be backwards compatible to older browsers, like
> IE7. But does this count when HTML5 and CSS2+ is used? HTML5 works good
> together with CSS2.1, but the support of HTML5 and CSS2.1 in IE7 is very
> poor and not really usable.

My opinion is that whenever we implement HTML5 support, it should be 
done without hacks in the output.

If I choose to use HTML5 as output mode, I expect it to be HTML5 and not 
something in between to be compatible with browsers not supporting 
HTML5. If this is needed, I should either use another mode (XHTML, ...) 
or manually import one of those compatibility JS files that aim at 
"fixing" support for advanced CSS in older browsers (AFAIK).

Cheers
Xavier

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Xavier Perseguers
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