Can I use HTML5 to build my pages and still be able to use Perl + mod_perl effectively?
mod_perl and pretty much any other component you can think of (PSGI, which you should really consider, web frameworks like Mojolicious, Catalyst and Dancer, etc.) are all agnostic to output format. You can use them to deliver JSON, PNG, PDF, HTML, plain text, HTML 5 or any other format you want.
What else would I need to consider?
If the actions on the server side take more than about 5 seconds, you need to think about how to execute them in the background, and provide feedback to the user when the action finishes. This article should give you the basic understanding on how to do such things, though there might be more modern tools available for doing it.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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