Re: MathML at the next CSS WG F2F meeting

In general I think it's good idea to introduce new CSS features for math
layout and Igalia plans to work with Google on that.

As I already said several times, we should not make the same mistake as
the former Math WG and instead really only propose new native features
when we have a clear specification/implementation/testing plan. In
particular we should have an idea about how it would work in web
engines' internals and be able to discuss with them on this point
(otherwise we are just wasting people's time). This is the rule I've
tried to follow for the MathML Core and for the CSS proposals I linked
in my previous email.

As I said my colleague Manuel Rego is attending the meeting and will do
a short intro. He is familiar with layout implementation in WebKit and
Chromium, so should be able to discuss implementation details with
Google. I am not attending the meeting.

On 25/02/2019 08:38, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> That is great. The Math on the Web CG also has some proposals. I
> believe the two most pressing ones were some enhancements to vertical
> alignment (in particular, adding "axis") and some for stretchy
> characters [1]. These were already presented to the CSS group at the
> last TPAC meeting. I believe Dani is more tuned into them than I am,
> so I'll let him chime in.
>
> We should be supportive of the work of the other math-oriented CG
> where our goals overlap... which I think they do for improvements to
> CSS. I hope whomever will be at the meeting (Frederic?) will be able
> to speak to those ideas if they come up, or potentially proactively
> mention them.
>
>     Neil
>
> [1] https://w3c.github.io/mathonwebpages/taskforce/css/
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:05 AM Frédéric Wang <fwang@igalia.com
> <mailto:fwang@igalia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Igalia contacted Google again this week to discuss our progress on the
>     "MathML in Chromium" project and Google provided very positive and
>     useful feedback. My colleague Manuel Rego will be at San Francisco for
>     the CSS WG face-to-face meeting. Among other things Google invited
>     us to
>     do a quick heads up about the work of Igalia and the MathML refresh
>     community group and they will probably start reporting some spec
>     issues
>     to our tracker. I know we haven't discussed/decided everything yet in
>     this CG (trackers, cleanup of spec, css proposal [2]...) but I guess
>     nobody has any problem if we take the opportunity of the face-to-face
>     meeting to introduce our work and get browsers involved (some people
>     from Mozilla are also interested). I'll follow-up with you all
>     next week
>     anyway.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>
>     [1] https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/sf-2019
>     [2]
>     https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml-css-proposals#mathml-css-proposals
>
>     -- 
>     Frédéric Wang
>
>

-- 
Frédéric Wang