Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Roger B. Sidje wrote:
> . . .
>> Implementation-wise, as this inclusion of MathML-in-HTML5 marks the
>> beginning of tag soup, ...
>
> Don't worry, these tags auto-close when a parent tag is closed.
Two points for clarification:
1. There's the old issue, related to dual parsers, of trying to get
Mozilla family user agents to give proper handling of XHTML+MathML
when served through text/html -- following early Amaya practice. (In
the end the W3C HTML WG refused to support this idea and spawned the
mimetype application/xhtml+xml.) It seems that formally correct
XHTML+MathML would now gain coverage as text/html under current WhatWG
thinking, at least when XML namespaces are evident only through use of
the xmlns attribute (which would be ignored in tag soup), i.e., no use
of xml namespace prefixing. Is this correct?
2. Is WhatWG entertaining the idea that off-the-cuff tag soup writers
will generate MathML content that's good enough for Mozilla rendering?
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In case you don't know:
The W3C Math group has announced that it is beginning to think seriously
about author-level markup for math.
Long term -- say ten years in the future (we've already been at this
for ten years) -- I think author level math additions to the tag soup
vocabulary would work out much better, especially with enhanced CSS
support.
Cheers.
-- Bill
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