On 29.06.2012, 1:11 Rob wrote:
We have a longstanding request to enable HTML5 on all sites: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27478
We've had it enabled on mediawiki.org for ages, with minimal death and mayhem. There are two issues listed as blockers:
Bug 30525: Search bar icon/button slightly lower when html5 mode is enabled https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30525
Doesn't look that scary.
Bug 36495: Sanitizer incorrectly converts align="right" for elements that are not table-cells https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36495
I could poke at it as part of my 20% time.
Bug 30525 doesn't seem like a blocker to me (but patches definitely welcome). Bug 36495 seems more likely to cause problems, though I'd like to nudge Krinkle to explain Comment 9.
Assuming we can either get these fixed, or agree they aren't blockers, I say we set a date and go. Should we plan on sometime in July (say a week or two after Wikimania)?
I say go for it. Some people are always going to whine, but we shouldn't wait forever for a few XML-loving bots to upgrade. We recently added IPv6 support, yet Wikipedia didn't die in pain while some anti-vandalism tools were broken. Same thing here.