Re: Exploring new vocabularies for HTML

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:56:36 -0700, Neil Soiffer <Neils@dessci.com> wrote:
> One thing to note in your above example is that you have used two named
> entities.  I believe that these have been ruled out for HTML5.  The lack  
> of such named entities will make it much tougher to hand author math (in  
> any
> form) in HTML5.  I use both WYSIWYG and smart text editors to create/edit
> MathML, so this is not an issue for me.  However, for those of you who
> insist on hand authoring, you should stop and think about how limiting  
> this will be and whether hand authoring is really going to be very  
> useful to you.

HTML5 already has a bunch of entities that have been in HTML4 for a long  
time. Where was it stated that MathML entities would not be included? I  
most certainly expect us to include MathML entities if we're going to add  
MathML markup. (How to solve this for the XML serialization is a different  
matter, but that seems out of scope for the HTML WG.)


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2008 06:05:36 UTC