HTML 5, DocType & <html> tag

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Subject: HTML 5, DocType & <html> tag

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Other

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: Windows

Release: 8.5.3

Reproducible: -Reproducibility-

A while back we developed a web site based largely on Domino's ability to display data in views. Over time, we've spruced up the look using .css and whatnot, but still rely largely on Domino to build & format view data, (and maybe there are some forms that we've never converted - and still allow Domino to convert on the fly...).

We've always used Domino's default '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">' coding. Once I build or modify a page (form, view, etc) I validate my HTML and/or .css using http://validator.w3.org/.

(I'll add that I'm not an HTML 'expert', but I get along...)

Recently, Marketing has hired an outside firm to 'give the site a friendlier look and feel'. Last week I was able to look at a couple preliminary pages, and have a few concerns.

They're proposed design apparently uses HTML5, with: '<!DOCTYPE html>'. Their design includes also includes the following for the <html> tag:


 <html class="no-js" lang="en" > 

I know that I can control the doctype using the field: '$$HTMLFrontMatter', and that I can modify the html tag using the '$$HTMLTagAttributes' field - but have not been able to generate the html tag they're suggesting - '$$HTMLTagAttributes' only seems to allow me to add to the the 'html' tag - not replace it entirely.

Haven't found much information on using HTML5, modifying the HTML tag using Domino and such searching the forums - Has anyone done this? Or have suggestions (or warnings?).

A minor concern is that neither of the HTML5 pages that were presented to me were able to be validated at w3.org - a concern that I raised with the designers but feel like it was brushed off.

The designers are not familiar with Domino, but stated that HTML5 is backward compatible with HTML4, so, whatever content we're displaying from Domino (forms & Views) will be OK.

Thanks for anything you can offer!

Feedback number WEBB97NP4W created by ~Sigmund Dworelitnivu on 05/13/2013

Status: Open
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