Re: Minutes from 19 May 1999 UA teleconference

At the meeting on wednesday it was noted tht Chris Weaver had asked about the
Authoring Tools group and their approach to MathML and W3C specifications.

In the draft of May 6 - http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990506
checkpoint 2.1 (the first checkpoint) is "use applicable W3C specifications".

So where a w3c recommendation exists such as MathML it is a P2 requirement
that it be used rather than another method. Also, things like namespaces are
included in this, which will make life a lot easier. If User Agent does the
same, it will not only provide consistency which is not a bad thing, but
provide a general mechanism for dealing with a number of problems. For
example, the MathML one largely seems to be resolved - MathML, DOM,
namespaces, XHTML (especially modularised) allows the incoporation of MathML
and the required navigation information in a simple manner. (or so it seems
to me on a cursory glance)

Charles

--Charles McCathieNevile            mailto:charles@w3.org
phone: +1 617 258 0992   http://www.w3.org/People/Charles
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Received on Friday, 21 May 1999 04:54:07 UTC