Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Review MathML (#313)

I'd personally like to see MathML remain a standard. Like any other web standard, there are ways in which it would be useful to improve it to make it more usable for more use-cases, and ways to layer it better to provide better escape valves.

But that doesn't mean we should abandon a long-lived web standard that some people have found useful and that provides a reasonable starting point for further work.

If the argument is that people can do it in userspace instead, that may be an argument for excavating primitive underpinnings (with the collaboration of people already building alternatives in userspace). We're using this approach in TC39 to design improved temporal APIs in JavaScript that can serve to reduce the size and complexity of userspace libraries like moment.js.

Moving things to userspace, in contrast, increases the amount of shipping JS over time, something that we can all agree we should try to avoid.

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