From: jon+ikiwiki@663db4cb26e845748f3e7e6d51eeb26c6014f1c3 <jonikiwiki@web>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 15:27:13 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: a call to arms wrt HTML4, 5 and templates
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a call to arms wrt HTML4, 5 and templates
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+Is it perhaps time to flip the default for the `html5` to `1`? What criteria should be used to answer that question?
+With [[smcv]]'s last major change in this area, back in 2014, the market share of IE8 and earlier was a concern at
+5%. What is the equivalent market share today?
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+The templates are still a real complex mess of branches around this configuration option. I'd love to see all that
+branching removed. Would anyone else? A hypothetical future html4 option/plugin could work by post-processing the
+generated output and replacing the troublesome tag names (via XSLT perhaps, depending on tooling). Is there any
+appetite for this?
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+*—[[Jon]], 2020-10-05*