- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:46:33 +0300
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, www-math@w3.org
On Mar 30, 2008, at 13:36, David Carlisle wrote: > >> That's a bad analogy. Annotation is like .... > > So html5 should drop the alt attribute and instead mandate that all > html5 processors are able to infer necessary information by analysing > supplied image data? If the current state of AI made that feasible, yes. But the current state of AI doesn't make it feasible. > This appears no different to me than saying that > you should only supply the presentation form of a math expression and > that other systems should have to infer what they need from that > presentation. I'm not against including dual Presentation and Content MathML given the state of the art. What I think is problematic is using product- specific formats instead of Content MathML. Allowing product-specific formats diminishes the incentive for vendors to use Content MathML for semantic round-tripping. Using dual Presentation and Content MathML wouldn't solve the problem of out-of-sync data branches, but at least there'd be a level playing field for apps importing MathML for editing. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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