I'd like to make a feature request. The Netsurf documentation says to post it on this list rather than using the bug reporting system.
The Netsurf progress page says an HTML5 parser is being in the process of development; that's good but HTML5 has been used for 6 years now and what seems to me (if I'm right) a minor change might allow the existing engine to display HTML5 as it was intended, even if it doesn't 'understand' the concept of some of the new elements/structures. Specifically, my web site has over 60 pages that use the HTML5 figure and figcaption elements to contain content (images and their captions alongside). Netsurf doesn't recognise these and doesn't act upon styles applied to them in CSS. The page renders as if they were not there. But I've set properties such as making them inline-blocks with vertical centering next to each other, OK on Chrome/Firefox but none of this works in Netsurf whose display output is ruined in a cascade of incorrectly positioned elements. It seems to me that if the figure and figcaption elements were simply considered as being div elements, the display would work as intended. At present the only way I could get around the issue is to wrap the HTML5 elements in a div, and apply the styles to the div and not the HTML5 element. OK ideally the new elements should have default styles (for example Firefox puts a 16 pixel top/bottom and 40 pixel left/right margin on the figure element, whereas a normal div has none) but that doesn't matter much as if Netsurf supported styles on HTML5 elements, I would be able to set all those things manually. Whilst I've only tested this on figure and figcaption, other HTML5 elements like aside, nav, footer are also I suppose in the same boat. Best regards Ewen Pring -- Ewen Pring, St. Albans, Herts using RISC OS 5 https://timebus.co.uk/riscos/
