Comments on: WordPress HTML 5 Theme now live

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:37:51 +0000

I launched a site recently that went part of the way towards HTML5, but because it’s a business site, I stopped short of using the new unrecognised elements and instead opted for HTML5-like class names.

I also used text-shadow and @font-face as a fallback if js was disabled (as otherwise you’d see sIFRed text).

I’ve been using Dean Edwards’ IE8.js quite a lot lately which I’ve also found quite liberating in terms of not having to apply lots of unnecessary class names to target elements (but keeping in mind that the page doesn’t fall apart to badly in IE6 & 7 if js is off).

By: Karl Dawson

Karl Dawson — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:47:23 +0000

Matthew, you’re right – I’ve cut IE8 from the mix twice. Hmm, it displays correctly but I could add another conditional for “forward-looking” IE versions (irony intended) or increment to lte8.

Thanks for your feedback.

By: Matthew Pennell

Matthew Pennell — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:31:54 +0000

Only just noticed you’d redesigned, Karl – nice job.

One question, though – won’t the conditional comments around the BODY tag (as per Paul Hammond’s idea) mean that IE8 users don’t get an opening BODY tag at all?

By: Blair Millen

Blair Millen — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:14:48 +0000

Congrats on the HTML5 re-design Karl! It’s very interesting to peer through the markup too. Personally I’m such a stickler for validity, I’d hate to see that HTML Tidy Firefox add-on displaying the invalid symbol all the time. Nice work though.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:29:43 +0000

I’ve followed along with IE support/CSS validation for some time now. Perhaps it’s time to start thinking outside of what I’ve been practising for all of these years. Inspiring

Good job!