- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:47:42 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, White Lynx wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > What we need, to move forwards on this, would be a full proposal for > > what you want added to HTML5. Currently this thread seems mostly to be > > along the lines of "we should add maths, but we shouldn't make it > > hard". > > Sketch of the proposal is available [1], comments are welcome. At this > stage prose is far from being polished, but I hope it is readable. > > http://www.geocities.com/chavchan/html5/proposal.xml So, while I applaud the re-use of ISO12083 here, it seems like an odd choice. The resulting language seems to be just as verbose as MathML, so why not just reuse MathML, which already has a Web presence? Also, your version of the vocabulary doesn't seem quite the same as ISO12083, which means we would be introducing yet another mathematical markup language, in a space which already has many such languages. Why not just re-use MathML? MathML already has defined semantics, a defined interpretation based on DOMs, defined DOM interfaces, and an implementation in at least one browser. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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