[Koha-devel] OPAC !DOCTYPE

Fri Feb 20 02:07:55 CET 2015

On 19 February 2015 at 19:59, Paul A <paul.a at navalmarinearchive.com> wrote:
> 3.18 just adds <!DOCTYPE html> -- which gives rise to "errors" in most
> verification processes (W3C etc).  Was there a reason to change this?
> (Can't find anything in bugs.)

<!doctype html> is the declaration for HTML5. If a verification tool
breaks on the doctype declaration (versus reporting on things on the
page that’s not HTML5-compliant), then the verification tool is
broken.

> I'm playing with the Google mod_pagespeed in Apache 2.4, and adding the full
> DOCTYPE seems necessary. I haven't (yet) seen a downside to adding it back
> in.

Using the shorter doctype means we’re switching to HTML5; adding the
rest back in means we’re going back to HTML 4. I’m not current with
where Koha is going but I assume Koha would be going HTML5 as most
sites are going to go HTML5.

-- 
cheers,
ambrose // http://o.gniw.ca / http://gniw.ca //