Re: HTML5 Tidy [was: Undeprecating <s> and <u> tags]

Note that <b> and <i> are un-deprecated as well.


On Feb 18, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Michael[tm] Smith wrote:

> Steven Le <stevenle@google.com>, 2012-02-06 16:20 -0800:
> 
>> The latest HTML5 specs have revived the <s> and <u> tags, links below:
>> 
>> http://developers.whatwg.org/text-level-semantics.html#the-s-element
>> http://developers.whatwg.org/text-level-semantics.html#the-u-element
> 
> Sources for an HTML5 fork of Tidy here:
> 
>  https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5
> 
> Those sources are based on a patch from Björn Höhrmann:
> 
>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Nov/0007.html
> 
> ...with quite a few additional changes:
> 
>  https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5/commits/master
> 
> The checking in this fork attempts to conform to the current HTML5 spec as
> much as possible, though I'm sure there are cases where it does not yet.
> But it does handle the <s> and <u> elements as expected.
> 
> The only way to get a binary of this HTML5 Tidy fork right now it to clone
> that git repo and build from the sources yourself. But I suppose we should
> host binaries for it somewhere. So I'll try to do that soon.
> 
> I can build OSX and Linux binaries myself, but I do not have a Windows
> environment. So if someone else is willing to build native Windows and
> Cygwin binaries, please let me know.
> 
> Eventually I'd like to get this version packaged for Debian and MacPorts
> and such.
> 
>  --Mike
> 
> -- 
> Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/+
> 

Received on Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:19:14 UTC