Closed Bug 514929 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Switch doctype to HTML5

Categories

(www.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Product:
www.mozilla.org
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: samuel.sidler+old, Unassigned)

Details

I'd like to propose we switch the doctype of mozilla.org to the one HTML5 will use. Specifically: <!DOCTYPE html> There are a number of reasons for this, least of which is the fact that most of mozilla.org doesn't validate right now because we moved from an HTML4 doctype to the XHTML 1.0 strict doctype. It's also important for us to promote standards, and one which we're highly invested in. I'll be posting to dev-mozilla-org about this shortly.
The switch from HTML4 to XHTML1 is bad in any case, HTML5 at least makes sense. "Correcting" our markup by adding lots of /> to elements that never needed it in HTML is a useless waste of time, and we might want to add things like <video> to pages some time so we really should go HTML5.
I've proposed this on the newsgroup. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.mozilla-org/browse_thread/thread/ce693c39abc9ddaf# Feel free to leave feedback there and lets keep this bug to be resolved (maybe WONTFIX!) based on the outcome of that thread.
This was just switched over. http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=54674 Let us know if anything breaks.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Component: www.mozilla.org → General
Product: Websites → www.mozilla.org
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