From 9e38ba27d1d229bdf04812554efbc5e2e3e53477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "jon+ikiwiki@663db4cb26e845748f3e7e6d51eeb26c6014f1c3" Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 11:27:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] a call to arms wrt HTML4, 5 and templates --- ...tml5_default_to_1__44___and_clean_up_templates.mdwn | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/flip_html5_default_to_1__44___and_clean_up_templates.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/flip_html5_default_to_1__44___and_clean_up_templates.mdwn b/doc/bugs/flip_html5_default_to_1__44___and_clean_up_templates.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..15bd0c605 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/flip_html5_default_to_1__44___and_clean_up_templates.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +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? + +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? + +*—[[Jon]], 2020-10-05* -- 2.39.5