On the HTML5 + Drupal Working Group // NYC Drupal Meetup

In Feb 2011, I presented at the NYC Drupal Meetup about the HTML5 Drupal Working Group — what we were doing at the time to incorporate HTML5 into Drupal 6, 7, and 8, and others could join the effort.

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2. JEN SIMMONS designer, front end developer & drupal architect drupaling since 2007, building websites since 1996 creator of Bartik, the default theme in Drupal 7 Senior Developer at Palantir.net jensimmons.com twitter: jensimmons
3. SLIDES AT: jen.cm/h4
5. SO CAN WE USE HTML5 TODAY?
6. YES.
7. Jeremy Keith's Keynote AT DRUPALCON COPENHAGEN drupalradar.com/video-jeremy-keith-keynote-session
8. DRUPALLY HTML5
9. HTML5 DRUPAL GROUP groups.drupal.org/html5 irc: #drupal-html5
10. GOALS Use HTML5 today on Drupal 6 & 7 websites. Figure out best practices for Drupal + HTML5 through real world experiences. HTML5ify Drupal 8.
11. HTML5 TOOLS MODULE drupal.org/project/html5_tools
12. TOOLS Implement HTML5 Forms Simplify the output of: $scripts, $styles, $submitted, etc. Override menu markup to be <nav> Add HTML5 Elements to the Filtered HTML input filter
13. ELEMENTS MODULE drupal.org/project/elements
14. PUT HTML5 FORM INPUT ELEMENT SUPPORT INTO D7 CORE? drupal.org/node/675348
15. HTML5 BASE THEME drupal.org/project/html5_base
16. BASE Override core templates — basically HTML5ify Stark. (node.tpl, page.tpl, block.tpl, comment.tpl, comment-wrapper.tpl, region.tpl, html.tpl, etc…) HTML5 Fundamentals is a child theme that will do fancier stu .
17. HTML5 DRUPAL WORKING GROUP groups.drupal.org/html5 irc: #drupal-html5
19. HTML5 BASE ISSUE QUEUE http://drupal.org/project/issues/html5_base?version=7.x
21. HTML5 TOOLS ISSUE QUEUE http://drupal.org/project/issues/html5_tools?version=7.x
22. ALSO: Lots of writing and documenting to do. For HTML5 Tools and Base projects for D6 & D7. The plan for D8.
23. ON TWITTER @drupalhtml5