Re: MathML-in-HTML5

• From: Roger B. Sidje <rbs@maths.uq.edu.au>
• Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:07:25 +1000
• To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
• CC: Paul Topping <pault@dessci.com>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, www-math@w3.org, dev-tech-mathml@lists.mozilla.org
• Message-ID: <4523094D.8020108@maths.uq.edu.au>

On 4/10/2006 10:38 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> 
> The proposal that I understand Roger intends to experiment with is making 
> any tag in a particular list of tags be added to the DOM as a node not in 
> the XHTML namespace but in the MathML namespace.

The simpler <math xmlns="...">...</math> would make life much easier, as
- it would avoid listing all the possible tags up-front
- gives parity with IE+MathPlayer out-of-the-box.
- future proof.

Perhaps xmlns could be an exceptional attribute.
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RBS

Received on Wednesday, 4 October 2006 01:09:20 UTC