> I'm coming late to this thread but I have to say that the misunderstanding > present in the original post is huge. The author can take refuge in that he's > made a common category mistake. MathML is a computer representation for math, > TeX is a human input language. > > MathML was never intended to be typed by humans so it is no wonder that you > find it a bad experience. TeX is a poor computer representation which is one > reason why MathML was invented. > > It is reasonable to have a discussion of the relative merits of entering math > by typing TeX vs point-and-click editing of math (ie, direct manipulation > editing). I am biased toward the latter but I can understand the feelings of > those whose hands know TeX really well. > In short, both MathML and TeX have good reasons to exist and don't compete > with each other in their primary categories.
I am also late in this thread, and I incline to this point and I see the original author frustration as a valid discussion — not sure under this one. But I wanted to present another problem which is in a way of the same nature (has also a degree of separation). It's the development of tableless grids against HTML. Consider the case, table A, which a developer can think of: 4 columns: abcd ebfd To to this in HTML, the developer has to make a "container DIV" with 4 main column cells in it, think c1,c2,c3,c4. And which c1=rows a,e; c2=row b; c3=rows cf; c4=row d; It's easier to type something like the following: 4,abcdebfd But this won't change the reality, the end product of this is: <div><div class='inline'><a /><e /></div><div class='inline'><b /></div><div class='inline'><c /><f /></div><div class='inline'><d /></div></div> Which, can be , as many pointed: styled, channeled to accessibility observers, manipulated, annotated — all of of that with a greater level of compatibility as developers understand. But then, right now, what we have are: a) Toolkits using JS to do things like 4,abcdebfd [1] a.1) For example, http://labs.telasocial.com/grid-layout/ b) Specs do to similar things: b.1) http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-template/#grid-shorthand The above example, which refers to grid rearrangement, is a different things I know. But I think it has similar points to this discussion: shorthands that applies to HTML elements (or other elements) are good things to developers. m _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
