- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:50:59 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, White Lynx wrote: > > "Basic Web application features SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTABLE using behaviors, > scripting, and style sheets IN IE6 TODAY" Given that <canvas> has been implemented in IE6, I have no worries that an HTML-based Math markup language based on MathML (and creating a MathML DOM) could be implemented in IE6 as well, if someone wanted to do so. > "The core features of an XML vocabulary should require the use of > elements from ONLY ONE NAMESPACE." The proposal was to not have namespaces at all (and indeed, not even use XML), so this seems co vered. > "IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that authors BE ABLE TO MOVE FROM AN HTML > ENVIRONMENT TO A CLEAN COMPOUND DOCUMENT ENVIRONMENT (typically first > simply by moving to XHTML) IN A GRADUAL FASHION." This was written when my opinion was still that we should be moving to XHTML. I'm not actually sure we want to do that at all these days; most Web developers seem to agree (there's almost no XHTML on the Web). However, integrating MathML into text/html would make this imminently possible, since it would allow one to write a text/html-to-XML converter that actually took HTML5 markup with Maths, and turned it into native XHTML with MathML, etc. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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