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Old 11-05-2011, 02:53 PM   #1
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The absence of a <!doctype...> declaration in HTML output for a recipe puts IE9 into quirks mode. I don't see any way to control this via the recipe API. Is this something that accomodated? IE9 quirks mode is so antiquated a lot of CSS doesn't work the way it should. I'm thinking ahead to KF8 which is HTML5/CSS3 (apparently) and wondering if the absence of the doctype will be an issue.
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:12 PM   #2
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Why do we care about IE9? The HTML output from the recipe system is not guaranteed to be any specific thing (it depends on the HTML offered by the source website, so adding a doctype isn't really feasible).
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Why do we care about IE9? The HTML output from the recipe system is not guaranteed to be any specific thing (it depends on the HTML offered by the source website, so adding a doctype isn't really feasible).
Well, we don't care specifically about IE9. But we should care about ereaders that want to be HTML/CSS compliant, and they might look at doctype to decide how to render the content.

The point is, as far as I can see calibre DELETES the doctype of the source. The easiest resolution (and most general) would be to retain the doctype.
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Old 11-05-2011, 11:39 PM   #4
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One other thing along the same lines--news.py currently replaces the HTML5 tags ('article', 'aside', 'header', 'footer', 'nav', 'figcaption', 'figure', 'section') with 'div' -- something which should probably be controlled by a recipe API parameter in the near future.
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Sure, if it turns out that it is necessary for something, changes could always be made. Note that currently no reader that I know of requires a doctype. EPUB (the only current format where this would be relevant), requires XHTML 1.1 so the doctype is superfluous.

Ebook reader application typically dont have to care about the long legacy of html soup present on the larger web.
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