RE: MathML-in-HTML5

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Robert Miner wrote:
> 
> 1) On the html tag, you must declare a namespace prefix:  <html 
> xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
> 
> 2) Before the first equation, you need to identify the extension 
> renderer via an OBJECT tag: <OBJECT CLASSID="..." ID="foo"</OBJECT>
> 
> 3) Associate the extension with the prefix using a processing 
> instruction: <?IMPORT NAMESPACE="M" IMPLEMENTATION="foo" ?>
> 
> 4) Use the namespace prfix on your math tags: <m:math>...</m:math>
> 
> I'm assuming that for backward compatibility, HTML5 will tolerate 2 & 3, 
> and what is under discussion is whether to tolerate 1&4.  Is this 
> correct?

What do you mean by "tolerate"?

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Received on Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:58:34 UTC