- From: White Lynx <whitelynx@operamail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:55:56 +0400
- To: www-math@w3.org
>> they could draw many of OMML since the markup is really CSS >> friendly: sub and sup into msubsup, num and den into frac etcetera. > Well, basically it is as CSS friendly as MathML. Some constructions are > more CSS friendly in OMML (fractions, overscripts, maybe prescripts, > radicals) some are less (nary, properties specified in the way that > can not be accessed using CSS selectors). Certain subset will work in > XML+CSS, but the same functionality can be gained through appropriate > MathML profile. So in this respect differences between the two are not > tangible. > Sure that OMML was not designed to be rendered via CSS, > but sure also that > the format is more DOM and CSS friendly than MathML in many aspects: > prescripts before base, explicit tagging (instead MathML by position > calls), prefix formats instead inline mstyles, etc. More or less yes, it is slightly easier to handle. >> In addition I fear that if Microsoft will push OMML as a math >> markup for web then we will rather get bunch of WordML "pages" instead >> of XHTML+OMML. So it is not necessary good for web as such. > Outlook 2007 also got OMML math facilities. Therefore, you can also > interchange mathematical equations via email with colleagues. It is clear that markup will be widely supported in Microsoft products and will play important role in STM publishing. But it is unclear what consequences we will get for web and webbrowsers, if it will be exported to XHTML+MathML or will appear in XHTML+OMML form (and either MathML or OMML will be supported by MSIE) then we can live with it, but if we just see bunch on WordML documents on web then it will be the end of normal "browsing experience" of any kind, as it will end up beyound the browser's scope and will be just passed to Office or plugins that handle WordML. In this context it is vital to integrate MathML (actually both but we apparently have no control over OMML) into web environment, to avoid degeneration of web into bunch of WordML (well being XML based it is more manageable then PDF, but regardless this it is not the web format) files. But under integration into web environment I mean integration in XML+CSS framework, today it is not the time to play with HTML tags, it will not give us any new functionality that could help us to be more competitive. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze
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