Re: MathML 2.0 Last call

Thanks for the feedback Håkon! The Math WG will prepare a response
and get back to you shortly.

Best regards,

Angel

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Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>@w3.org on 04/26/2000 10:22:59 PM

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Subject:  MathML 2.0 Last call



Janet Daly wrote:

 > This is the Last Call Working draft and the review period
 > ends 30 April.

Comments to Last Call from Opera Sofware:

MathML does a good job of catering both to those striving for content
markup, as well as the presentation-oriented markup. The level of
abstraction of the presentation-oriented markup is still high enough
to allow for media-independent presentations.

MathML 2.0, however, contains some visual warts that should be removed
or deprecated: the so-called "CSS-compatible attributes". They were
also present in MathML 1.0, but neither place have thier position been
justified. Style sheets provide a much cleaner way of moving futher
down towards presentation. Also, having a third level of abstraction
(in addition to the content and presentation-oriented elements) seems
a bit too much.

Regards,

-h&kon

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Received on Thursday, 27 April 2000 09:18:12 UTC