Re: Wish for MathML 3: Discourage named entities

The big problem here, and this is a very general problem of the web  
is that there is no way at the server side, or even at the script- 
side, to actually know that this glyph can or cannot be rendered;  
there might be hacks though.

The only way CSS tries to solve this is by selectors that check  
availability of a whole Unicode range. That is fairly useless for  
mathematics.

I tend to support very much your opinion that the character is the  
thing to be used as much as possible, and that copy-and-paste  
actually works with them... except for the above which tastes "bad  
experience" quite a lot.

paul


Le 17 sept. 07 à 12:22, Chris Chiasson a écrit :

> What about using the actual character for the integral? I would think
> that the people reading the specs would have these characters (?) If
> all else fails, an image of the glyph with the appropriate alt text in
> the image's alt attribute will allow people (using firefox and ie) to
> copy/paste the alt text.