Ryan Kaldari wrote:
In case no one has mentioned this, changing the
DOCTYPE has a pretty
huge effect on how CSS gets rendered. Wikimedia's current DOCTYPE (XHTML
transitional) maps to "almost standards mode" or "limited quirks
mode"
in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE8 and IE9. Changing to "<!DOCTYPE
html>" will switch the rendering mode in all of those browsers to
"standards mode". Testing and tweaking all the CSS in Mediawiki for this
DOCTYPE change is a huge task. I'm already getting bug reports due to
this issue, and I wasn't even aware we were making the change.
Can you elaborate on some of the harmful or potentially harmful effects that
you're talking about?
How exactly was the conclusion reached that this
change would only
affect screen-scraping tools? The MediaWiki page on the HTML5 transition
lists several other issues, none of which seem to have been adequately
discussed or addressed.
I assume you're referring to <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTML5>? (I
didn't see a link in the previous e-mails.)
MZMcBride