[FLOW3-general] HTML5 - The Future of web based applications

[Sebastian Michaelsen]

IMHO you should consider to use HTML5 as Doctype for the TYPO3 Backend.

Switching to HTML5 is not a big deal at all. You only need the change the Doctype. You're done. 
Nothing will break - promised.

After that you'll have the option to use HTML5 APIs instead of ExtJS in some places. Why would you 
want that?

Let's look at an example. ExtJS offers a storing API to store and get client side data. This is only 
neccessary for backwards compatibility to old browsers because HTML5 has several APIs of storing 
Data at the client. It's likely that the HTML5 Implementation in your browser is more robust, secure 
and has a better performance.

So the point is: You don't have to use HTML5, but with an HTML5 Doctype you have _the option_ to 
replace ExtJS parts with HTML5 in the future if it fits well.

Just a penny dropped while sitting in the Phoenix UI workshop.

Kind regards,
Sebastian Michaelsen