- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:34:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Neil Soiffer <Neils@dessci.com>
- Cc: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Neil Soiffer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > > > > > (Boy there are a lot of MathML elements, even in Presentation > > > > MathML.) > > > > > > not really, presentational mathematics is a bunch of special layout > > > forms, and compared to say the markup html uses for tables, the > > > level of element use per layout form is similar. (except as > > > previously commented tokens such as numbers and identifiers are > > > marked up individually). > > > > There's over 80 different presentational MathML elements in MathML3. > > That's a lot of elements for one small part of HTML. Whether they are > > justified or not is not really what I'm arguing. :-) > > I just did a count and come up with 32 presentation elements in MathML > 3; 35 if you include semantics/annotation/annotation-xml. I might have > missed one or two, but I'm hard pressed to see how you came up with more > than 80 elements -- can you list the elements you think are presentation > elements? My bad, I meant over 30. It's about a third of the number of elements in HTML5 at the moment, but to cover just one small use case. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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