[TYPO3-core] RFC: #11503: HTML5 doctype implementation

Peter Klein pmk at io.dk
Mon Oct 12 16:36:36 CEST 2009


"HTML 5 validation is not DTD-based, so in HTML 5 the doctype does not
refer to a DTD."

According to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML


--
Peter Klein

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:56:36 +0200, Martin Kutschker
<masi-no at spam-typo3.org> wrote:

>Peter Klein schrieb:
>> Changing the doktype is not enough.
>> 
>> Tags like <br /> should be rendered as <br> etc. 
>
>I understood it that HTML5 can be used as SGML application (<br>) and as XML application (<br/>). So
>the DTD is not enough to distinguish both modes via the DTD. You would have to check the MIME type
>(text/html vs application/xml+xhtml).
>
>Sidenote: TYPO3 currently doesn't support valid HTML anyway. All single tags are rendered with a /
>(like <br/> and <img/>).
>
>Masi


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