- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:54:15 +0100
White Lynx wrote: > Dan Brickley wrote: >> It would also be both considerate and sensible >> (if anyone does want to undertake such a task) to talk to the >> MathML folks first. > So far we are addressing problems that were invented and deployed by MathML folks. > > But you are, apparently, assuming that the problems with MathML are a result of ignorance on the part of the people working on the spec. Perhaps there is a reason they invented a language that did not build on the CSS layout primitives e.g. because those layout primitives are not sutiable for mathematics (similar to the reason that XUL, though "CSS-based" employs a large number of specific CSS extensions to work in a sane way). You have demonstrated that CSS can provide the first 80% (or whatever) of what's required for laying out maths - but there seems to be no way forward to address the last 20%.
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