- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:07:24 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>, Neil Soiffer <Neils@dessci.com>, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Neil Soiffer wrote: >> I meant that content MathML doesn't need to be directly supported. >> However, it should be accepted as part of <annotation-xml>, where it is >> easily ignored. > > HTML5 today has about 110 elements. Presentational MathML has about 30. > Content MathML has about 140. > > _Doubling_ the number of elements allowed in text/html just so that all > those elements can be ignored seems like a fundamentally bad idea. (It > also more than doubles the number of elements that the parser has to know > about.) > ... The solution is not to add them to HTML (nor SVG, nor...), but to define an extensibility point. BR, Julian
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