Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Fiverizer

How do you pronounce Fiverizer?

I pronounce it as though I am saying "fiver riser" (or, in the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ˈfaɪvəˌraɪzə/), that is, a program that makes something into a "five" (ie, HTML5), analogous to how "modernize" means to make something modern.

But feel free to pronounce it any way you want. It's just a name I made up. I had to call it something.

Can Fiverizer convert an HTML 4.01 website to HTML5?

It is highly unlikely that the results of such a conversion will be correct.

Although Fiverizer doesn't really check whether your web page's has an XHTML 1.0 DOCTYPE or something else (that is, it will transform any DOCTYPE you furnish into an HTML5 DOCTYPE), it does however assume that your page contains valid, well-formed XHTML 1.0. It is this assumption that will trip Fiverizer when attempting convert an HTML 4.01 page.

Take for example the requirement in XHTML that all elements and attributes must be in small (ie, lowercase) letters. Since Fiverizer knows this, it only looks for elements in their lowercase form. So although it will convert, say, "<acronym>", because it is obsolete in HTML5, it will miss any instance of (say) "<ACRONYM>" or "<Acronym>" on your page. The latter two are invalid in XHTML 1.0, but accepted by HTML 4.01. And even if you think that you have consistently used small letters for all your elements and attributes, you will probably run into problems with XHTML 1.0's other requirements (eg, being well-formed, attribute values requiring quotation marks, no attribute minimization, etc), many of which Fiverizer actually relies upon.

So the answer, realistically speaking, is no. Your web pages must be in XHTML 1.0.

Is it possible to install Fiverizer from a non-administrator account (ie, without elevating with UAC)?

Yes, but you will have to run the setup utility with the option "/CURRENTUSER".

Open a "Run" window. To do this, hold down the Windows key (found at the bottom row of your keyboard, probably between the Ctrl and Alt keys on the left of the space bar) and type 'r' while keeping the Windows key depressed. This will open a dialog box with "Run" as the title.
To run the setup utility, you will have to enter its full path (that is, its location). Let's say that you have downloaded fiverizer-setup-1.0.exe from fiverizer.com and saved it onto your desktop. Type the following:

"%USERPROFILE%\desktop\fiverizer-setup-1.0.exe" /CURRENTUSER

Make sure you use the actual filename of the setup utility. These instructions were written when Fiverizer was at version 1.0, so the setup was called fiverizer-setup-1.0.exe. As I release new versions, I will change the filename so that it reflects the current number, so for example, version 2.0 will have a setup utility called fiverizer-setup-2.0.exe, and so forth.

If you get an error message saying that Windows cannot find the file you specified, it means you have typed the location incorrectly. If you have difficulty getting it right, just copy the file onto your desktop, and copy and paste the command line from the box above. Be sure to change the number at the end (the "1.0" bit) so that it reflects the actual number used for your filename.

When it is invoked this way, the setup utility will not issue a User Account Control prompt. Instead it will offer to install Fiverizer into your "AppData\Local\Programs\Fiverizer" directory, the same way the Chrome web browser does. In Fiverizer's case, though, you can change it to another location if you prefer.

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