- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:57:26 -0500
- To: Arno Gourdol <arno@arno.org>, Peter Krautzberger <peter@krautzource.com>
- Cc: mathonweb <public-mathonwebpages@w3.org>
On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 13:44 +0000, Arno Gourdol wrote: > Personally, I don't think that MathML is the solution. I would rather > see CSS and ARIA improved. This would be a less significant effort > from a standard and implementation point of view, while providing a > more flexible solutions. > > Specifically, I would like to see support in CSS for stretchable > fences and notations, features which are currently > difficult/impossible to implement well. I agree that building mathematical formatting on CSS (and extending CSS where needed) makes sense in the Web platform. I don't agree that this obsoletes mathml - especially the semantic markup - since done well it could actually *enable* the use of mathml. You might as well say that having display:block and size:larger obsoletes the h1 element, but that'd be ignoring the needs of search engines and content management systems. There are plenty of features in mathematical formatting that would be of use elsewhere, ranging from line-breaking of complex structures (e.g. Japanese two-line wraechu) to fences to alignment of displayed equations on the = sign with an equation number in the margin. Best, Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Staff contact for Verifiable Claims WG, SVG WG, XQuery WG Web slave for http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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