Re: Exploring new vocabularies for HTML

David Carlisle wrote
>> What I think is problematic is using product-specific formats instead
>> of Content MathML. 
>>     
>
> yes it is problematic. In MathML3 we're trying (slowly) to formalize the
> specification of the annotations used (usual diffiulties surrounding
> whether we should use the legacy names or new ones based on mime tyes or
> namespaces or..., but that doesn't directly concern this thread)
>
> personally I think there would be some hope of agreement along the lines
> of specifying that html+mathml used a profile of mathml that only
> allowed content mathml as a annotation-xml (so renderers only need
> understand presentation mathml) but that annottation-xml was confined to
> just this one use.
>   
Since we are all speaking just for ourselves, let me say that this 
sounds like a good way to go forward. I am no more of a friend of 
vendor-specific markup than you are.

Michael

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