On Sunday 19 July 2009 8:36:47 pm Bushidodeep wrote:
Hi,
I've taken DRUPAL as the CMS of choice, it's robust and pretty standards compliant. Are there plans to upgrade to HTML 5, or will DRUPAL 7 hold to XHTML?
CK
I've seen no discussion of moving to HTML 5 officially, as HTML 5 is not even finalized yet, likely won't be for some time, and support for it is still hit- or-miss across features and browsers.
That said, HTML 5 has an XML-friendly version, as far as I understand, and there's certainly nothing stopping a module or theme from using HTML 5-specific tags. So if you wanted to, for example, develop a module that used the <video> tag, Drupal won't get in your way. The page would not validate against an XHTML validator, but that's to be expected. You could also specify an HTML 5 doctype in your page.tpl.php for your theme and everything should still keep working, too.