- From: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 09:09:57 +0100 (BST)
- To: Abigail <abigail@fnx.com>
- cc: jkorpela@cc.hut.fi, papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, www-html@w3.org
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Abigail wrote: > What's the point of putting <MATH> in? It has been clear that browser > authors aren't interested in developing MATH support. (Of course not, > neither commercial websites nor Joe Q. User is interested in it). > Putting MATH back in won't change that. > > If you want MATH support, go make a browser that deals with it. There are almost enough browsers which support <MATH>, namely Arena and udiWWW. There aren't quite enough because there are other platforms. > I don't see the point in making an ISO standard (or any standard) which > has major features which aren't supported by any non-experimental > browser. All the major browsers ignore the specifications anyway, 99% > of the users doesn't care, and 99% of the authors prefer catering to > browsers than to specs. Thats horribly defeatist. I would rather believe that 99% of users and 99% of browsers are irrelevant, if they prefer things that way then they have nothing to say to me nor I to them. The 1% are those who matter. Dave Carter
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