Hiya,
On 28/01/2026 04:14, Martin Thomson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 28, 2026, at 12:29, Paul Hoffman wrote:It's a short document, so I doubt I missed it, but: what is the motivation for prohibiting what works now? It doesn't work "all that well", but that's true of at least a quarter of RFCXML.The motivation has a few angles: * Accessibility. An SVG drawing of math is only accessible to sighted users (conceding that an LLM might be able to transform an image into something accessible, but no need for that). * Consistency. Equations that are rendered through a single coherent process can be more readily processed and rendered consistently. * Minor stuff like styling is more feasible with something like MathML.
I don't find that motivation sufficient to justify banning what's used now, when the better/replacement thing is not yet settled. I think the draft may be controversial if it continues to take that approach, so I'd encourage the authors to consider backing off from that. Cheers, S. PS: to be clear, I don't disagree with the bulleted items above.
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