Re: PROPOSAL: MathML

Could you give us a little more detail for your opinion.

Does the current DOM specification not support MathML? 
(i.e. are we trying to use DOM for something it does not support in the
specification)

Does the current DOM specification support the special API?

Thanks,
Jon

At 04:46 PM 5/12/99 -0500, schwer@us.ibm.com wrote:
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>Strong Suggestion: The DOM interface should provide for special API for
MathML
>objects embedded in a DOM that is accessible.
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>Rich
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>Rich Schwerdtfeger
>Lead Architect, IBM Special Needs Systems
>EMail/web: schwer@us.ibm.com http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/rich.htm
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>"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
>I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.",
Frost
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>Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu> on 05/12/99 01:16:51 PM
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>To:   w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
>cc:    (bcc: Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM)
>Subject:  PROPOSAL: MathML
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>I would like to propose that we accept the recommendations of the MathML
>subgroup to:
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>1. Require full implementation of MathML
>2. Require integration of MathML elements into the DOM
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>On the issue of navigation I propose:
>Place navigation of mathematical equations in the techniques document under
>the appropriate checkpoints (i.e. DOM navigation and sequential access to
>elements)
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>Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
>Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
>Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
>University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
>1207 S. Oak Street
>Champaign, IL 61820
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>Voice: 217-244-5870
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820

Voice: 217-244-5870
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Received on Wednesday, 12 May 1999 18:06:07 UTC