- From: Roger B. Sidje <rbs@maths.uq.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:46:23 +1000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Paul Topping <pault@dessci.com>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, www-math@w3.org, dev-tech-mathml@lists.mozilla.org
On 4/10/2006 11:28 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Roger B. Sidje wrote: > >>On 4/10/2006 10:38 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> >>>The proposal that I understand Roger intends to experiment with is making >>>any tag in a particular list of tags be added to the DOM as a node not in >>>the XHTML namespace but in the MathML namespace. >> >>The simpler <math xmlns="...">...</math> would make life much easier, as >>- it would avoid listing all the possible tags up-front >>- gives parity with IE+MathPlayer out-of-the-box. >>- future proof. >> >>Perhaps xmlns could be an exceptional attribute. > > > There are millions of pages that have bogus xmlns="" attributes on various > tags. If we started doing things with those attributes, those pages would > break. That's not an option. I haven't studied IE closely enough to know > exactly what it's doing, but it isn't as simple as simply handling an > xmlns="" attribute on any tag. Even if the exceptional circumstance is made more specific? There is probably zero page with the specific attribute-value pair <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> > More importantly, xmlns="" isn't simple. Authors have huge issues with > anything like namespaces. I would guess that MathML authors/generators would be comfortable with that. More importantly, the sure guarantee would be the absence of any rendering on the screen... (With that, they can't forget.) --- RBS
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