- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:01:04 -0500
- To: Arno Gourdol <arno@arno.org>
- Cc: Peter Krautzberger <peter@krautzource.com>, mathonweb <public-mathonwebpages@w3.org>
On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 18:34 +0000, Arno Gourdol wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 5:57 PM, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I should have been clearer since you seem to disagree with something > I didn't say. I'm not arguing that MathML should be obsoleted. oops sorry! > I agree that MathML could have a role to play as a machine-readable > format. > However, that doesn't mean that browsers should have anything to do > with displaying MathML. There are a number of solutions today that > display MathML in browsers, even if those browsers don't support > MathML. Browsers do not need to support MathML for MathML to be > useful. Well, that's for sure true although it would be helpful for adoption if they did! Thanks for explaining what you meant. I thnk we agree that browsers need to support the necessary building blocks, though, and that w'd like them to do that through CSS rather than hard-wiring behaviour to specific element names, although we may diverge on the importance of having those element names also shared by being e.g. part of the user agent stylesheet. > -- 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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