Re: [MathML4] Removal of the menclose notation "radical"

Discussion has been moved to
https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/3

On 26/07/2016 09:29, Frédéric WANG wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Continuing on proposal for MathML4, there are two equivalent notations
> for square roots:
>
> * <msqrt> child1 child2 ... child3 </msqrt>
> * <menclose notation="radical"> child1 child2 ... child3 </menclose>
>
> The latter does not bring anything new but duplicate code or
> inconsistencies in implementation. In WebKit, the msqrt and mroot
> elements share implementation and menclose@radical was implemented by
> creating anonymous nodes. In the past, this kind of implementation has
> led to rendering, performance and design/security issues. During phase 1
> of our refactoring [1], we thus removed support for menclose@radical. In
> Gecko, the msqrt and menclose elements share implementation but then
> mroot has duplicate logic, which is bad and Gecko should probably be
> aligned on WebKit here.
>
> So we would like menclose@radical to be removed in future versions of
> MathML (it is optional in MathML3 anyway). We expect this removal to be
> safe for the users given that (except in examples and tests) msqrt is
> always preferred over menclose@radical in math documents. The only
> rationale for menclose@radical would be to write overlapping notations
> (e.g. <menclose notation="radical circle horizontalstrike">) but again
> we are not aware of any concrete use cases for that and it's always
> possible to nest <msqrt> and <menclose> to get similar rendering without
> overlapping notations.
>
> Frédéric, for the Igalia Web Platform team
>
> [1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/MathML/Early_2016_Refactoring
>
>
>

-- 
Frédéric Wang

Received on Friday, 22 February 2019 14:03:12 UTC