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

[Christian Hennecke]

Am 09.08.11 11:05, schrieb 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).

I fully agree. html5shiv/shim , PIE, and the like are doing quite a good 
job. And then there's something like graceful degradation.

Cheers,
Christian