Posted by jacine on October 30, 2011 at 7:52pm
I'm excited to announce that the patch to convert the html.tpl.php template has been committed. Here's what this means:
- Drupal 8 has a true HTML5 DOCTYPE.
- RDF is not hard-coded and the RDF variables are not exposed in the templates.
- There are separate variables to handle attributes for
<html>and<body>elements. This allows us to easily add attributes to the<html>element, such as a manifest attribute (which is needed when working with Offline Web applications using the Application Cache).
The work done in the patch can easily be applied to Drupal 7 sites in the theme or module layer, and will likely be in the http://drupal.org/project/html5_tools shortly (some of it already has already been applied there). For a detailed look at the changes see the patch in comment #69.
Special thanks
Thanks to all that worked on this issue: scor, karschp, jessebeach, Everett Zufelt, linclark, Jeff Burnz, ericduran, Rob Loach, dcmouyard, tim.plunkett and skottler.