Is Vanilla HTML4, XHTML4 or HTML5?

mtschirs · August 2015

It seems the library/core (Garden framework) is build to output XHTML4 code. E.g. Gdn_Form::escapeID() escapes according to (X)HTML4 specification. There are probably more such cases to be found. However, most views write HTML4/5 code.

Can we update Garden to HTML5? Or at least decide on one document type? Or if both is not possible, make Garden document type agnostic?

vrijvlinder · August 2015

It technically is php that relies on smarty to sprew html5 if using a tpl smarty template. That is my own simplification based on what I see. If the template , as in default.master.tpl . But if the theme uses a default.master.php it spews html4 strict.

As far as I understand, html5 allows for simplified ways via smarty to execute php.

Bleistivt · August 2015

It was XHTML 1.0 (strict) originally, but was later changed to HTML5, hence the HTML 5 doctype:

<!DOCTYPE html>

You can actually have both XML validity and HTML5 validity. They are seperate concerns. e.g. <br /> and <br> are both valid HTML5.

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http://vanillaforums.org/discussions

As you can see there are a few problems, one I already pointed out and one I fixed this morning.

mtschirs · August 2015

Throughout all of the core library, htmlspecialchars() is used with the default ENT_HTML401 which handles code as HTML 4.01.

Bleistivt · August 2015

@mtschirs said:
Throughout all of the core library, htmlspecialchars() is used with the default ENT_HTML401 which handles code as HTML 4.01.

The difference between ENT_HTML401 and ENT_HTML5 is that ' is replaced with ' instead of '.

Not really worth settings flags for that everywhere.

Is Vanilla HTML4, XHTML4 or HTML5?

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