HTML5 Support

[zerojack]

I know the HTML5 spec won't be done for many years, but parts of the spec are considered stable enough so that all major browsers are claiming to support those parts within a year.

The markup I am most interested in right now are the semantic tags. <article> <section> <aside> ,etc. CSE documentation is very current, and seems to handle the HTML5 semantic markup, but any sort of CSE roadmap or semi-regular status report would be helpful.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hello,

We don't have a published roadmap, but plans are to stay as current as possible, especially with HTML and CSS. The next major release (v11) should further improve HTML5 & CSS3 support.

If you encounter any issues or have any suggestions for improved HTML5 or CSS3 checking, then please let me know. Thanks!

[roedygr]

I know the HTML5 spec won't be done for many years, but parts of the spec are considered stable enough so that all major browsers are claiming to support those parts within a year.

The HTML5 entities are rapidly being supported in browsers. There is not much to it. Just add them to the list.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/html5.html to see which browsers are supporting which entities.

If you want to add them, I have compiled a CSV file which you can convert fairly easily to whatever form HTMLValidator uses internally. You could have a switch to say if you want to consider them ok. See http://mindprod.com/products1.html#ENTITIES

You might even convert them to &x#ffff; form optionally in one of your transformer utilities.

[Albert Wiersch]

Thanks! I may have missed/neglected those if not for your message. I will get those new HTML5 named character references recognized by CSE HTML Validator and use your http://mindprod.com/jgloss/html5.html page to test.