Add experimental support to build using Bikeshed - #296
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Although this is far from complete, I'd like to add the experimental mode to html-build to make collaboration on it easier. At TPAC I'd like to demo how to use it (which is a lot easier if this is merged) and where people can help out if they're interested. I'm happy to clean up some things if requested, I wrote this as an experiment and probably left a few weird things in that need explaining or removing. |
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Happy to rubber stamp this, but let's give @sideshowbarker and @zcorpan a chance to chime in as well. |
Same here. This is epic and it seems like it could go ahead and be landed — for the reasons Philip outlined in https://github.com/whatwg/html-build/pull/296#issuecomment-3464324423 — and any further work could be handled in follow-up PRs |
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I tried running this which worked. The output is broken (e.g. many cross-references don't work correctly), but that is as expected. |
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@foolip can you resolve merge conflicts? |
The new --bikeshed flag enables Bikeshed mode. The wattsi2bikeshed.js
script converts the source from Wattsi to Bikeshed syntax.
The hardest part of this is ensuring that cross-references still resolve
to the same thing. Wattsi's <span> and <i> for autolinks are converted
to <a>, but changes to HTML itself will likely be needed for some cases
where the data-x="" (with hyphens) is unambiguous but where Bikeshed's
linking text (with spaces) is ambiguous and would require a for=""
attribute.
What doesn't work:
- Some cross-references as per above.
- Some manual changes to HTML are still needed:
https://github.com/whatwg/html/tree/bikeshed-experiment
- Existing IDs aren't always preserved.
- Simplification of HTML into Bikeshed shorthands like {{Node}}.
- subdfn, which has no equivalent in Bikeshed.
- Variants like the dev edition aren't properly supported.
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The new
--bikeshedflag enables Bikeshed mode. The wattsi2bikeshed.js script converts the source from Wattsi to Bikeshed syntax.The hardest part of this is ensuring that cross-references still resolve to the same thing. Wattsi's
<span>and<i>for autolinks are converted to<a>, but changes to HTML itself will likely be needed for some cases where thedata-x=""(with hyphens) is unambiguous but where Bikeshed's linking text (with spaces) is ambiguous and would require afor=""attribute.What doesn't work:
https://github.com/whatwg/html/tree/bikeshed-experiment
{{Node}}.subdfn, which has no equivalent in Bikeshed.