[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is now official. HTML5 is going at W3C (although it isn't called
HTML5 -- at as least as yet).
The noises have built into a rumble, to the point of reaching the man
himself, Sir Tim BL, if we have to name him:
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166
"Some things are clearer with hindsight of several years. It is
necessary to evolve HTML incrementally. The attempt to get the world to
switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in
empty tags and namespaces all at once didn't work."
He also says:
"The large HTML-generating public did not move,
largely because the browsers didn't complain."
although I suspect he misspelt "comply"
But seriously, I'd love to see MathML in HTML, provided
it was sufficiently MathML-like to fit into reasonable workflows.
Currently, I can work with XML data with embedded MathML
and generate both HTML(w/images, eg) or XHTML(w/MathML)
using stylesheets that are 90-95% shared.
If output method='html' were enough to convert real MathML
into HTML's MathML, possibly even with some XSLT compatible
namespace downgrading, that might be workable from a content
generation standpoint.
I worry that such almost-MathML wouldn't be recognizable
as MathML when cut-n-pasted to other applications, though,
which would make the MathML-in-HTML only useful for presentation
(useful tho' that is!).
These are the concerns I had with some of the ideas
being floated within WhatWG; I hope they will carry
some weight in the continued development.
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