Re: [docbook-apps] Re: HTML5 version?

[Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>]

On 10/05/2011 05:51 AM, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Larry Garfield<larry@garfieldtech.com>  writes:
> > Hi folks. At the moment I'm using the XHTML version of the DocBook XSL
> > scripts. That's mostly fine, but I am trying to convert all of my web
> > work over th HTML5. (Vis, using more semantic tags, reduced-complexity
> > head elements, fewer extra wrapping divs, assuming that CSS actually
> > works now so I can use modern selectors for styling, etc.)
>
> Depends how far back you need to go. Unknown elements are rendered
> inline and IE (versions prior to 9) can't style unknown elements at
> all by default.
>
> There are workarounds[1][2], and I'm sorely tempted to start relying
> on them in the HTML output from the DocBook XSLT 2.0 stylesheets, for
> which HTML5 is specifically the target.

Great to hear!

If you do, I'd recommend making them an option.  The lion's share of my 
userbase, for instance, is Firefox and Chrome users.  I think IE is 4th 
overall, and I have more Android users than IE 6 and 7 combined.  I'd be 
inclined to just "go modern and screw the older browsers" for that site, 
although certainly there are other use cases where you'd want to throw 
in modernizr, html5shiv, or whatever else to support older IE versions. 
 In fact, would it make sense to simply document how to throw one of 
those in yourself rather than baking it into the script?

--Larry Garfield