- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:05:01 +0100
- To: Frédéric WANG <fred.wang@free.fr>
- CC: W3C MathML Discussion <www-math@w3.org>
On 18/10/2010 19:27, Frédéric WANG wrote: > Are there some cases where a browser should use w3centities-f.ent? Or is > htmlmathml-f.ent enough? Currently of the main desktop browsers only IE (I think) actually fetches a DTD that is referenced. Other browsers in XML mode either ignore the DTD or (as in firefox/mathml case) just load a predefined DTD for security and performance reasons. So while in a controlled environment it makes sense to use whichever DTD sets you like, and to make up your own if you want, on the public web it really only works to use those entities that have a chance of working in multiple browsers; either because they are built in to the parser code or because they are in pre-installed dtd files. All of which is a long way of saying that a browser can safely ignore w3centities-f.ent and just use htmlmathml-f.ent which will give, in the XML code path, an identical set of named entities to the html5 parser in the text/html code path. David
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