- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:54:02 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, ?istein E. Andersen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > Since HTML5 supports MathML natively now, it seems that MathML is the > > solution to use here. > > There does not seem to be any real support for vulgar fractions in > MathML (neither as specified nor as currently implemented). I agree > that adding such support to MathML might make more sense than adding > another way of encoding fractions to HTML proper, though, ? *if* mark-up > is needed ? despite limited use of vulgar fractions in mathematics. On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > Actually, it seems to me that the best solution is for browsers to > support the unicode fraction slash [U+2044], unless that has too bad > performance problems. > > ?istein: Have you talked to any browser vendor to see if there's a > reason they don't support this yet? At least firefox supports ligatures > these days which is somewhat similar. > > But ultimately I agree, since we support MathML, it seems like a > solution should live there if a markup solution is needed. On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, ?istein E. Andersen wrote: > > I have not approached any browser makers yet, and I am not aware of any > good reason for not supporting the fraction slash. Now, you are > obviously aware of the issue and presumably in a situation to follow it > up. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make it more likely for > this feature to be considered for addition to Firefox (apart from > actually implementing it myself). Based on the above, I've not added anything to HTML5. I recommend following up on this with browser vendors, the Unicode consortium, or the MathML working group, as appopriate. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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