Re: MathML in HTML: syntax for hypertext links

On Apr 3, 2009, at 02:20, David Carlisle wrote:

> It has become painfully obvious that relying on an external
> specification for linking is not ideal (Firefox 3 pulled support for
> xlink, thus removing link support from all existing XHTML+MathML  
> pages).
> Also relying on (necessarily :-prefixed) xlink attributes for linking
> will presumably cause problems for html5 integration.


Actually, the parsing side of xlink:href in HTML5 is a solved problem.

In Gecko, the above-DOM part depends on the same code as the XML side,  
so xlink:href on MathML nodes is useless until the earlier accident  
with MathML xlink:href support in general is addressed.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Friday, 3 April 2009 07:11:57 UTC