Feature #16896

Adapt our website to HTML5

Added by sajolida 2019-07-19 11:18:17 . Updated 2019-08-01 15:30:43 .

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web/7021-modernize-website
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Description

Cf. the html5 option of ikiwiki.setup.

HTML5 is more modern and is better for multimedia and semantic (and thus accessibility).


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Related to Tails - Feature #7021: Review & modernize website markup and css Resolved 2014-04-03

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#1 Updated by Anonymous 2019-07-19 16:57:33

Funny: Feature #7021. I cannot remember why I stopped working on this exactly.

Regarding: https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/7021#note-44

Switching to HTML5 means several things:

- having an HTML5 header
- possibility to use more modern HTML tags instead of divs (but it’s totally not required to do that to be HTML5 compatible to my knowledge)

I would try building the website with the ikiwiki pref enabled and see what happens.

@sajolida: what exact issue did you encounter that was not HTML5 compatible? For testing purposes..

#2 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-20 10:08:17

> @sajolida: what exact issue did you encounter that was not HTML5 compatible? For testing purposes..

None myself.

intrigeri pointed out in Bug #10649#note-39 that the

It was better for me to test the resulting page in different browsers
than to learn more about the differences between the 2 standards and
whether my page correct in theory, and my page worked fine! :)

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2019-08-01 15:30:43

  • Feature Branch set to web/7021-modernize-website

See Feature #7021 for earlier work & discussions on this topic.

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2019-08-01 15:31:20

  • related to Feature #7021: Review & modernize website markup and css added