- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:49:45 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Cc: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>, "'MegaZone'" <megazone@livingston.com>, www-html <www-html@www10.w3.org>
Am I a pariah for thinking that the functionality which <math> hopes to encompass would be much better suited to a different data type altogether, embedded in HTML using <object> rather than trying to squeeze it into HTML proper? Separating it out makes implementation 10x easier (just distribute plug-ins), makes evolution independent from HTML, and gives authors a number of ways to represent their data (i.e., I might have the Mathematica data type, the postscript version, and a GIF version, and content-negotiate between them). Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com | We're hiring! http://www.organic.com/Home/Info/Jobs/
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