- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 22:17:53 +0100
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Surely > the difference between 3<sup>2</sup> and 32 is not just in visual > rendering; it's the difference between 9 and 32. No, it's - at its heart - the problem of using a language that is badly, or rather not at all, suited to mark up mathematical or chemical equations, It's using a screwdriver to hammer a nail in the wall, and complaining that we can't make the handle of the screwdriver in the next version smaller because it would make it impossible to hammer nails into the wall with it. > Unfortunately, the discussions seldom go past the point of an incomplete > statement of the problem. If such issues where presentation and meaning > are intimately coupled cannot be analyzed and solved properly, it is > best to allow common presentational markup as currently allowed in HTML, > and perhaps add a little. Taking it away without adding fairly complex > semantic markup for all the relevant cases would be a disservice. And I do believe that the latter is what we've been arguing about all along...that we'd love to see the combined force of the WG to work on some more semantic markup alternatives, rather than simply saying "there currently aren't any elements that can adequately cover these cases, so authors have traditionally used this presentational markup, therefore we can't introduce more adequate elements". P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________
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