-Some elements of [HTML5](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/) can be safely supported by ikiwiki. There are [several differences between HTML4 and HTMl5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/). Unsupported new elements _should degrade gracefully_.
+Some elements of
+[HTML5](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/) can be
+safely supported by ikiwiki. There are [several differences between HTML4 and
+HTML5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/).
-However as an [early adopter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_adopter) I would like to start using HTML5 as much as possible. The more pragmatic solution would be to use elements supported by the browsers of your readership I guess. I'm following other early adopters like [Anne](http://annevankesteren.nl/) for clues on how to proceed.
+> In the `origin/html` branch, there is an old work in progress to make
+> ikiwiki use html 4 instead of xhtml. If that could be brought forward and
+> finished then the plan has been to switch ikiwiki over to doing html 4.
+> I don't think it makes sense to try to make it support both xhtml and
+> html, it would complicate the code for no benefit.
+>
+> I think that is the best route toward supporting html 5 as well. Get
+> ikiwiki doing html 4 first and the changes needed to get to 5 from there
+> should be small. Probably just changing some doctypes and a few other
+> small changes which could be kept in a branch, or even shipped in ikiwiki
+> mainline as an alternate set of templates. Some of the changes, like
+> supporting new html 5 tags in the htmlscrubber, can be done in mainline.
+> (Like was already done for the html 5 video and audio tags.)
+>
+> This approach seems much more maintainable going foward than rolling a
+> html 5 branch immediatly and trying to keep that continually up-to-date
+> with mainline ikiwiki that is still using xhtml. --[[Joey]]
-* [Initial patch](http://git.webconverger.org/?p=ikiwiki;a=commit;h=2e2bb3f74f5000b1269142d6f9bdf1bcb4075ca4)
+>> TODO Still need to merge origin/html with my html5 branch.
-I'm unsure how to turn off the test validation by the very old [wdg-html-validator](http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wdg-html-validator.html). So I have been unable to test my initial patches as I can't build ikiwiki. I would like to know how to edit the rules/Makefile to temporarily disable this.
+* [HTML5 branch](http://git.webconverger.org/?p=ikiwiki;h=refs/heads/html5)
+* [test ikiwiki instance with HTML5 templates](http://h.dabase.com/html5/)
-> Don't run ¨make test" ... --[[Joey]]
+# HTML5 Validation and t/html.t
-[validator.nu](http://validator.nu/) incidentally is **the** HTML5 validator, however it is almost impossible to sanely introduce as a build dependency because of its insane Java requirements. :( I test locally via [cURL](http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/IDE), though Debian packages cannot be built with a network dependency.
+[validator.nu](http://validator.nu/) is the authorative HTML5 validator,
+however it is almost impossible to sanely introduce as a build dependency
+because of its insane Java requirements. :( I test locally via
+[cURL](http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/IDE), though Debian packages cannot be built
+with a network dependency.
-# Notes
+In the future, hopefully ikiwiki can test for valid HTML5 using [Relax NG
+schema](http://syntax.whattf.org/) using a Debian package tool
+[rnv](http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rnv.html).
-* 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 with iso8601 time
-* I suspect the migration to the new semantic elements of HTML5 like article, header & footer to take some time, due to browser support. Though they sure make the template code look much nicer.
-* `<br>` and too many `<div>`s usually indicates poor semantics.
-* Many of the header `<span>`s should be proper [header elements](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-and-h6-elements)
+# Issues
+
+## 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).
+
+As a workaround I use in my setup file:
+
+ timeformat => '%Y-%m-%d',
+
+## Header
+
+Many of the header `<span>`s should be proper [header elements](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-h1,-h2,-h3,-h4,-h5,-and-h6-elements)
+ > See [[todo/Option_to_make_title_an_h1__63__]] for why not. --[[Joey]]
+
+The [header element](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-header-element) requires a h1-h6 child, in order to [validate](http://validator.nu/). Hence in my [html5 page templates](http://git.webconverger.org/?p=ikiwiki;a=tree;f=templates;hb=refs/heads/html5), I've marked up page title with a h1.