JDK-8055728 : Update overview-frame, allclasses-frame and overview-summary pages to be HTML5 compliant
  • Type: Sub-task
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javadoc(tool)
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2014-08-21
  • Updated: 2014-11-06
  • Resolved: 2014-11-06
Description
Update the overview-frame.html, allclasses-frame.html and overview-summary.html pages to be HTML5 compliant.

Following changes are needed to generate these pages as valid HTML5 pages

1) Value for <meta> tag attribute name is invalid and need to be updated. As per the legal metadata names listed at http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions it should be updated to "dc.created".

2) The name attribute in <a> tag is obsolete in HTML5. Update it to use the id attribute.

3) The cellpadding, cellspacing, border and summary attributes of the <table> tag are obsolete. For cellpadding, cellspacing and border use CSS to controll the style. Remove the summary attribute on the <table> tag.

4) Add new command-line options to javadoc to specify the markup format (HTML 4 or HTML 5) that should be generated by the tool.
Comments
Following changes are needed to generate these pages as valid HTML5 pages 1) Value for <meta> tag attribute name is invalid and need to be updated. As per the legal metadata names listed at http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions it should be updated to "dc.created". 2) The name attribute in <a> tag is obsolete in HTML5. Update it to use the id attribute. 3) The cellpadding, cellspacing, border and summary attributes of the <table> tag are obsolete. For cellpadding, cellspacing and border use CSS to controll the style. Remove the summary attribute on the <table> tag. 4) Add new command-line options to javadoc to specify the markup format (HTML 4 or HTML 5) that should be generated by the tool.
21-08-2014