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diff --git a/lib/htmlpurifier/docs/ref-whatwg.txt b/lib/htmlpurifier/docs/ref-whatwg.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4bb4984f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/htmlpurifier/docs/ref-whatwg.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + +Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group + WHATWG + +== HTML 5 == + +URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ + +HTML 5 defines a kaboodle of new elements and attributes, as well as +some well-defined, "quirks mode" HTML parsing. Although WHATWG professes +to be targeted towards web applications, many of their semantic additions +would be quite useful in regular documents. Eventually, HTML +Purifier will need to audit their lists and figure out what changes need +to be made. This process is complicated by the fact that the WHATWG +doesn't buy into W3C's modularization of XHTML 1.1: we may need +to remodularize HTML 5 (probably done by section name). No sense in +committing ourselves till the spec stabilizes, though. + +More immediately speaking though, however, is the well-defined parsing +behavior that HTML 5 adds. While I have little interest in writing +another DirectLex parser, other parsers like ph5p +<http://jero.net/lab/ph5p/> can be adapted to DOMLex to support much more +flexible HTML parsing (a cool feature I've seen is how they resolve +<b>bold<i>both</b>italic</i>). + + vim: et sw=4 sts=4 |