[TYPO3-v4] HTML5 is HTML now

[Ernesto Baschny]

Hi Sebastian,

I think we should not change anything as of now for 4.5. It might very
well end up that html5 gets deprecated, but why should we care right
now? We don't even know what the outcome of this will be.

If in 2 years nobody knows what html5 was all about (which I doubt), we
still have minor releases in between to get up to the new trend (which
is why we have so short release cycles right now). The 4.5 LTS support
is based on the fact that someone wants it to be stable from start to
the end, and I think especially this "start phase" is important (where
html5 is still the wide spread name).

The term "html5" has been there for several years now, and going back to
"html" was just mentioned two days ago in a blog. Apart from the
confusion caused by older sites which might want their "HTML 4" and
which we care about also in the LTS release (backwards compatibility as
a major goal).

Cheers,
Ernesto

Sebastian Michaelsen schrieb am 21.01.2011 16:01:
> Maybe you've heard it: http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5
> 
> This is not only ridiculous because I bought the HTML5 T-Shirt but also
> because I engaged myself for a correct spelling of HTML5 in TYPO3.
> 
> By that the option for config.doctype "html_5" renamed to "html5" (old
> spelling deprecated).
> Bugtracker reference: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=17001
> 
> Should the WHATWG's decision have any consequences for us now?
> It's quite likely that W3C will follow the WHATWG and the term HTML5
> will die*.
> 
> I think it's quite important to have a "correct way" to declare an HTML
> Doctype in TYPO3 4.5 because it will be around for a minimum of 3 years
> and future technologies should be in its focus.
> 
> My suggestion is to keep "html5" as an option and to add "html" as an
> alias for "html5". But I don't insist that it's the perfect solution.
> 
> I hope for any other voices.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> 
> * = opionion


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Ernesto Baschny
Core Developer V4 Team
Release Manager TYPO3 4.5

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