Re: Math-mode in HTML from Paul Treadaway on 1996-05-24 (www-html@w3.org from May 1996)

From: Paul Treadaway <pt100@cup.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 00:55:03 +0100 (BST)
To: Edward Welbourne <eddy@chaos.org.uk>
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960525005111.13769A-100000@sun1>

On Thu, 23 May 1996, Edward Welbourne wrote:  
> Please don't let the urgency of producing pretty graphics steamroll the
> importance of being able to express Real Information in HTML.

I suspect you'll have to wait for a truly SGML-based WWW for that. Not
that I've actually seen any DTDs which really express the information
content of maths independently of the layout so far of course, but
that's where the real work is going into trying.

Paul Treadaway

Received on Friday, 24 May 1996 19:54:34 UTC