Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote on 04/02/2008 03:26:57 AM: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: > > 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. > > Yes, people keep saying that, but I've yet to see a detailed proposal that > is workable. I've tried coming up with many different ideas, but all had > some fatal flaw that wouldn't work on the Web. > > If you have any concrete ideas on how to make this work, I encourage you > to contribute to the wiki: > > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Extensions I have now contributed to that page. Feel free to identify where the proposal is not detailed enough or to identify any flaws that may, or may not, prove fatal. - Sam Ruby
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