- From: William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:23:33 -0400
- To: www-math@w3.org
"Roger B. Sidje" <rbs@maths.uq.edu.au> writes: > I also gather that MathPlayer can't do much about this, as IE only > hands them the MathML-island, right? Are we to understand that WHATWG is running without cooperation on HTML5 development from the IE folk? > The starting patch that I indicated in the opening already supports > prefixed tags, i.e., <html xmlns:m="mathml-namespace">, with > <m:math>...</m:math> in the document, > > as well as the typical > > <math xmlns="mathml-namespace">...</math> > with no need for a declaration in the <html> tag. It's great that you have that. However: While in text/html the attribute markup xmlns="something" will at the worst be taken by a user agent as a (relatively harmless) unknown attribute, the use of xmlns:m="something" -- with a forbidden character in an attribute name -- is a problem unless there is broad acceptance that it should be allowed. Furthermore: In application/xhtml+xml there seems to be more than one understanding among current user agents on the question (given the use of namespace prefixing) of whether or not inside an "m:math" element unprefixed subelements (at all depths) are mathml. -- Bill
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