Ceylondoc: make html documents HTML5

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Ceylondoc: make html documents HTML5 #208

Closed FroMage closed 12 years ago

FroMage commented 12 years ago

Rather than XHTML

tombentley commented 12 years ago

Is it really worth it? I mean:

What can we do using HTML5 that we can't do with XHTML?
HTML5 isn't a standard yet
Although all the major browers are increasingly supporting HTML5, there are still plenty of tools which don't support it
Markdown processors (at least the ones I know of) target XHTML output

If we are going to write a markdown processor, so be it, but does it have to be for M1?

FroMage commented 12 years ago

Because XHTML was dead on arrival? It's gone the way of the dodo years ago I thought. I'm pretty sure that XHTML fits in HTML, it's the other way around which is problematic, no?

tombentley commented 12 years ago

I'm coming around to the idea, 'cos I think we're actually pretty close anyway.

Would we target the XHTML syntax, or the HTML syntax of HTML5? If XHTML5 would we guarantee that the output is well-formed? In either case would we guarantee that the output is valid? Even in the presence of bad literal HTML within the markdown?