- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:07:05 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: www-math@w3.org, dev-tech-mathml@lists.mozilla.org, WHAT WG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, dolphinling wrote: >>> I'm not saying don't add MathML to HTML. I'm saying don't add >>> namespace syntax to HTML. As I've said elsewhere, I find this viewpoint simply incomprehensible. Namespaces are ugly, but they're not that ugly or that problematic. They are also at the core of XML processing. Throwing out namespaces makes it nearly impossible to process HTML with the very large and powerful set of XML tools. Eliminating namespaces is possible (though not desirable) if all you want is HTML+a few more random elements; but if you're talking about integrating MathML, XForms, SVG, and other applications into web pages, then namespaces is critical and indispensable. The benefits are worth the costs. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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