To my knowledge all relevant browsers (including IE6 etc) will display HTML 5 pages (using quirks mode), more information here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3911235/html-5-doctype-and-ie-6
In my opinion this is not an issue, we should be fine to use HTML 5. Joe ________________________ @jdreimann - Twitter Sent from my phone On 26 Nov 2012, at 07:03, Peter Koželj <[email protected]> wrote: > The other thread "Inline editing of objects" (for the Ticket page) suggest > fallback mechanism for javascript disabled browsers. > Although this is not directly linked I would rather "advertise" BH as HTML5 > UI experience than a no-javascript capable one. > > Is anybody aware of any browser that is actually incapable of displaying > HTML5 page? > > Peter > > On 25 November 2012 20:07, Matevz Bradac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've started working on #217 - "Make Bloodhound's layout responsive", >> based on Joe's html mockup of the ticket page (#240). >> I noticed that the HTML output contains a mix of HTML 5 along with >> XHTML 1.0, even though the doctype is XHTML 1.0 strict. >> As a consequence (some of) the pages don't validate (e.g. >> >> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/ticket/240 >> ), >> and this may be the cause of browsers (mis)behaving and rendering >> things differently. >> >> Is there any general consensus which doctype BH should use? Since >> we're using Bootstrap I suppose it would be better to go along >> with HTML 5, but I'm not sure how this affects the templating system. >> There's a Genshi extension which could be used >> (http://code.google.com/p/genshihtml5), >> does anyone have any experience with that? >> >> Cheers, >> matevz >>
