Re: [MathOnWeb] Peter K's comments on directions for 2018

Oops, sorry

> On 15 Jan 2018, at 16:05, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org <mailto:ivan@w3.org>> wrote:
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> I am bound to the current MathML syntax.

I should have written: "I am not bound" :-)

ivan


> I could even to have several syntaxes aimed at different communities. But you seem to say that there is no need for such standard whatsoever. This may be a source of our disagreement… (unless I completely misunderstand what you say).
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> Furthermore: there is an issue of interoperability. The HTML community has put in an enormous energy to define, in a real detail, on what really happens for each HTML element, and how they are presented on the screen. What they achieved is a significant interoperability among browsers as for layout and other things. Isn't there a need to do something similar for math? Some sort of a specification that says "this and this feature is implemented through this and this CSS/SVG/HTML element"? Otherwise we incur the danger of different tools mapping math on completely different feature sets, leading to a possible mess...
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> Ivan
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