Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Review MathML (#313)

In my opinion it is time to think about deprecating MathML as a web standard. In
particular it does not do a good job in defining what rendered content actually
should look like and it would cost a lot of effort to get this right.  Instead
increased efforts should be made to enhance other, successful web standards to
allow for easier rendering of maths (and related) content.  Specifically,

* improvements to CSS in areas like stretchy characters, baseline alignment, etc.
  (See @arnog's presentation at TPAC.)

* ARIA support for content specific adaptations such as customised navigation,
  multi-channel output (speech, Braille, etc.).

Having said that, I still think that there is a place for MathML as a
representation language for mathematics in XML (e.g., in publishers workflows).
It's just inadequate and unnecessary as a web standard of its own.


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