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

Stephen Linhart <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:41:09 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.user,gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Note that <b> and <i> are un-deprecated as well.


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

> Steven Le <[email protected]>, 2012-02-06 16:20 -0800:
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>> The latest HTML5 specs have revived the <s> and <u> tags, links =
below:
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>> http://developers.whatwg.org/text-level-semantics.html#the-s-element
>> http://developers.whatwg.org/text-level-semantics.html#the-u-element
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> Sources for an HTML5 fork of Tidy here:
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>  https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5
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> Those sources are based on a patch from Bj=F6rn H=F6hrmann:
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>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Nov/0007.html
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> ...with quite a few additional changes:
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>  https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5/commits/master
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Eventually I'd like to get this version packaged for Debian and =
MacPorts
> and such.
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>  --Mike
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> --=20
> Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/+
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