This change allows form elements to be overridden with a mustache template.
The template can even listen for form validation errors and supply the JS to
change the look of the form element when there is/isn't a validation error.
Initial support is for all core form elements including:
text, select, selectyesno and checkboxes, groups, dateselector, datetimeselector,
autocomplete, modvisible, advcheckbox, button, duration, filemanager, filepicker, editor, static, grading,
warning, textarea, password, url, submit, questioncategory, recaptcha.
Part of MDL-55071
This fixes WCAG 2.0 compliance because we were already using HTML5 markup.
The strict XML headers setting never worked for production servers, developers
used browser validators for compliance testing. XHTML 5 option is relatively
similar to this obsolete option, but still it can not be used on production servers.
XHTML Strict 1.x was a standardised dead end, HTML5 is the new de-facto-standard
supported by all major browsers including latest versions of IE.
Please note nothing changes in our coding style because HTML5 is a superset of
several previous standards, it is recommended to use only features that are
already implemented in all our supported browsers.
The password autocompletion in case of Moodle makes sense only on the login page, the form autocompletion in general is most probably useful only on the user signup page.
This patch is compatible with html 5, unfortunately we have to ignore strict warnings in legacy xhtml 1.0 standard.
Damyon Wiese