On 28/09/2006 2:44 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
I don't remember specific discussions about an <mtr label="..."> I
would guess there woul dbe some convern about the label being an
attribute rather than an element restricting the possibilities, but
implementation advice on difficulties on teh current schem woul dbe
taken seriously....
Here is an informative thread about it:
http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.mathml/browse_thread/thread/d77d015a1fffc6fb/5b0eb0cc9724ce72
(not on www-math, though. Maybe I should forward it there?)
It appeared that attributes (like those in <mfenced>) aren't unanimous
either. But having a bloated tag that won't be implemented in the next
several years isn't really helpful.
Ian wrote about entities
Yeah... Do we really need those? Some of them seem reasonable to add, but
2000 seems like too many for the mnemonic advantage to beat just using
Unicode codepoints...
I'd say that it's probably not worth including only a few, it would just
lead to confusion.
I am actually a fan of entities because they improve readability a fair
bit. I hope Ian won't give up thinking on this issue so quickly...
especially in the context of MathML where strange characters are quite
common.
As to my suggestion that "if [a document] is strict then maybe entities
could be required to have a semi-colon -- which will then avoid the
ambiguities", to which Ian responded that, "That would break back-compat."
We have other cases of broken back-compat. -- where users were told to
use a non-strict DOCTYPE or some other workaround, e.g, line-height of
images.
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RBS
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