- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:46:34 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > 4. Writing documents that include diagrams that include > typographically-correct mathematics. The inverse of 4 is also a requirement i.e. mathematics that contains diagrams. See e.g. [1] > In particular, people seemed to jump to solutions that the above problems > don't imply. For example, nowhere in the above list of problems do > namespaces appear anywhere, yet the majority of the discussion revolved > around namespace issues. If this is because I've missed a problem that in > fact requires those solutions, please tell me as soon as possible. Sam had a use case for namespaces that was basically "ability to unilaterally extend the language to address problems I find in the future but which haven't cropped up yet and which therefore aren't covered by existing functionality, without trampling on the toes of others or being beholden to an external entity to provide the enhancements for me on a timescale that is useful to me" [2]. [1] http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/001475.html [2] http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/02/HTML5-and-Distributed-Extensibility -- "Mixed up signals Bullet train People snuffed out in the brutal rain" --Conner Oberst
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