safely supported by ikiwiki. There are [several differences between HTML4 and
HTML5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/).
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=hendry/html5 author="[[Kai_Hendry|hendry]]"]]
+
* [HTML5 branch](http://git.webconverger.org/?p=ikiwiki;h=refs/heads/html5)
* [ikiwiki instance with HTML5 templates](http://natalian.org)
* [HTML5 outliner tool](http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/) -- to check you have the structure of your markup correct
+> Kai, thanks enormously for working on this. I switched a page to
+> the html5 doctype today, and was rather pleasently suprised that it
+> validated, except for the new Cache-Control meta tag. Now I see you're
+> well ahead of me. --[[Joey]]
+>
+> So, how should ikiwiki support html5? There are basically 3 approaches:
+>
+> 1. Allow users to add html5 tags to their existing xhtml pages.
+> What has been done so far, can be extended. Basically works
+> in browsers, if you don't care about standards. A good prerequisite
+> for anything else, anyway.
+> 2. Switch to html5 in eg, ikiwiki 4; users have to deal with
+> any custom markup on their pages/templates that breaks then.
+> 3. Have both a html5 and a xhtml mode, allow user to select.
+>
+> The third option seems fairly tractable from what I see here and in
+> your branch. You made only relatively minor changes to 10 templates.
+> It would probably not be too dreadful to put them in ifdefs.
+>
+> Some of your changes are obvious, like using the new `time` and
+> and `article` elements. Others less so, and I'm particularly
+> puzzled by these:
+>
+> * Removing the value="Submit" from the button on the
+> commentmoderation form.
+> * Removing feedlink.tmpl. What?!
+> * Using a `h2` for the header of inlinepage.tmpl and page.tmpl, rather
+> than the styled span. Ikiwiki has
+> [[a_reason|todo/Option_to_make_title_an_h1?]] for not
+> using real `hN` for the header atop a page and here.
+> AFAICS, html5 does not invalidate that.
+> * Removing Editurl from inlinepage.tmpl actions. I assume
+> this is your own preference, needs to be removed from branch
+> before I can use it.
+> * Removing the pageheader, content, and footer divs
+> which are all used by style.css.
+> Perhaps, the style sheet needs to be updated to use
+> the new elements, like the `footer` and `header`.
+> * Removal of the favicon from page.tmpl. Surely html5 supports?
+> * Removal of BASEURL from page.tmpl, apparently a mistake.
+> * Removal of the `/` between wiki title and page title.
+> Personal preference.
+> * Removal of `comments` div, which is there to be styled.
+> * Why use a `p` rather than the `div` for `addcomments`?
+> * Moving the action bar to the bottom of the page.
+> Personal preference.
+> * Clearly searchquery.tmpl has no business using bad old `center`
+> tag, but something should still be done to replace it.
+>
+> (BTW, it would be helpful if you could re-merge master into your branch
+> as it is a bit diverged now.)
+>
+> Other ideas:
+>
+> * Add pubdate attribute to time elements as appropriate.
+> * Use aside for the sidebar? Or for the [[templates/note]] template?
+> * Use nav for the actionbar
+> * Use placeholder in the search box. Allows closing
+> [[this_todo|Add_label_to_search_form_input_field]]
+> --[[Joey]]
+
# htmlscrubber.pm needs to not scrub new HTML5 elements
* [new elements](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/#new-elements)
+> Most of these can be supported trivially, since they are just semantic
+> markup. Make a list of these, and their attributes (and which attributes
+> can contain urls or other javascript injection mechanisms), and I can add
+> them. (Added several now.) Others, like `embed` are *scary*. --[[Joey]]
+
+> I have not added the new `ping` attribute, because parsing a
+> space-separeated list of urls to avoid javascript injection is annoying,
+> and the attribute seems generally dubious. --[[Joey]]
+
# HTML5 Validation and t/html.t
[validator.nu](http://validator.nu/) is the authorative HTML5 validator,
schema](http://syntax.whattf.org/) using a Debian package tool
[rnv](http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rnv.html).
+> Validation in the test suite is nice, but I am willing to lose those
+> tests for a while. --[[Joey]]
+
# HTML5 migration issues
# [article](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-article-element) element
Internet Explorer will display it as a block, though you can't seem to be able to further control the style.
-# Validator complains about no h1-h6 in header
-
-* [#509](http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=509)
-
## Time element
The [time element](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element) ideally needs the datatime= attribute set by a template variable with what [HTML5 defines as a valid datetime string](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#valid-global-date-and-time-string).
au:~% grep timeformat natalian.setup
timeformat => '%Y-%m-%d',
+
+> Also, the [[plugins/relativedate]] plugin needs to be updated to
+> support relatatizing the contents of time elements. --[[Joey]]