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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
