- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:03:32 +0000 (UTC)
- To: juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com wrote: > > > > IMHO backwards compatibility is not just "desirable", it is absolutely > > and fundamentally critical. Specification authors should always make > > their specs backward and forward looking. > > Then why all this stuff? Since you are proposing (ups i forgot that you > are not proposing anything even if look that) is not backward compatible > with current status of MathML authoring and processing. The idea of introducing math markup to text/html documents is completely orthogonal from the existence of MathML markup in XML documents. Compatibility with current MathML authoring and processing is neither here nor there -- the proposal here doesn't affect it in any way. > You can do [various things that have been at one time or another > suggested] but do not call it ***mathml*** Ok. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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