</div>: let's make Coquelicot more semantic with HTML5 - Coquelicot

30 Aug 2013


      Hello, I’ve noticed that the HTML code produced by Coquelicot is very
nice made (except maybe that the code isn’t wrapped at 72th column so it
looks better, like HTML-tidy do), but there’s one thing that could be
improved: the HTML version.
  Although XHTML is very good, I think (X)HTML5 (yes it has an
XML-complient version) is better: it’s really more semantic, and more
simple on some points. For example, that could take away all these ugly
“</div>” which have no sense. The “<div id="header">” would become
“<header>”, the “<div id="footer">” would become “<footer>”, the
“<code>git clone https://%5B%E2%80%A6%5D/coquelicot.git</code>” would become more
semantic with the “<kbd>” element, the “<em>Coquelicot</em>” that would
become *really* semantically correct with “<cite>” element, the sections
would be marked more explicitly with the “<section>” elements around and
of course the “<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">” would become
simpler with “<!DOCTYPE html>”.
  Notice that today most of web browser support HTML5 (even *IE*, yes
*Microsoft Internet Explorer now supports new HTML5 semantic elements*),
and are very urged to implement a lot of new HTML5 standards by great
evolution of some new great CSS features (which often make the code
cleaner) implemented in more popular browsers and the two most used Web
layout engines (seems to be the lasts, after the great death of IE and
the abandonment of Presto) are WebKit (Safari, Chrome, GNOME, etc.) and
Gecko (Firefox, Greasemonkey, Thunderbird, Iceweasel, Icedove, etc.),
which are both interoperable and free! Let’s take that opportunity!