[TYPO3-english] HTML5 & TYPO3

[Christopher Torgalson]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Christian
Zenker<christian.zenker at 599media.de> wrote:
> Am 27.07.2009, 15:23 Uhr, schrieb Jason Lefkowitz
> <jason at jasonlefkowitz.net>:
>
>> 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>").
>
> I was pointed to a nice comic strip that helps understand what the "death"
> of XHTML2 implies for the XHTML1 style of coding:
>
> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/29/misunderstanding-markup-xhtml-2-comic-strip/


The point (at least from my perspective) was not that the xhtml that
TYPO3 outputs was about to become obsolete; rather it was that in
*only* this area, TYPO3 is needlessly dogmatic about how webpages
should be coded. This can only become *more* of an issue (albeit not a
crucial one) given that html5 allows multiple coding styles...

-- 
Christopher Torgalson
http://www.typo3apprentice.com/