[TYPO3-english] HTML5 & TYPO3

[Jason Lefkowitz]

Hey everybody...

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>").

A few weeks ago, however, the W3C essentially deprecated XHTML as a 
standard by closing down the XHTML2 Working Group and encouraging 
interested parties to take up the still-in-progress HTML5 spec instead. 
(See http://www.w3.org/2009/06/xhtml-faq for details.) While HTML5 will 
offer an XHTML-style XML serialization, it's becoming pretty clear that 
this "flavor" of HTML5 will not be the primary one developers will be using.

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...

-- Jason