On 22.03.2011, 19:05 Joseph wrote:
Hello!
What is the current concensus on HTML5? Are we going to fully support it and use as many features as we can or are we going to keep just using javascript alterntives? I would assume that we would continue to use javascript in the case that the client does not support HTML5, though that may mean we have to write things twice. Also, if we are indeed going to use HTML5, are we going to use XHTML5? I would like to work on integrating MediaWiki with HTML5 if at all possible, I am just unsure on what parts we wish to use the new standard.
As the matter of fact, MediaWiki serves HTML5 by default. The only reason why it is still not enabled on Wikipedia is backward compatibility with numerous screen-scraping scripts/tools. However, they had their last warning recently - HTML5 was briefly enabled a couple of times and there's no guarantee that next time it will not stick :D