[dev] Horde 6 and HTML 5

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> Hallo,
>
> as the development code in master is now officially marked as Horde  
> 6 and not Horde 5.3, may I ask for some clarification?
>
> Will HTML 5 features be allowed in new code?

IMO yes.

> I am not proposing redesigning everything to become valid html 5  
> just because it's new. Also, a single page should be either  
> completely HTML 5 or completely HTML 4. (Maybe a whole app should be  
> either).

I don't think there is anything BC breaking in HTML vs. HTML 4/XHTML  
(which is what we are using). So there is no need to redesign  
anything. IIUC it's perfectly to switch to HTML 5 with our XHTML  
conforming output. Please correct me someone if I'm wrong.

> I am especially asking for usage of the date, time tags, datetime  
> attribute and the data-* attribute space.
>
> They received quite mixed acceptance but are supported in all  
> relevant browsers and related technologies.
>
> http://www.marcofolio.net/webdesign/html5_data-_attributes_are_great_and_you_know_it.html
>
> http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-data-attributes/


-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
https://www.horde.org/