On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:20:28 +0700, White Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
How should "formula" be used? There has been some discussion about it.
In case when everything is reduced to fractions and simple indices,
it can be optional. But having such an element is still important for
those who want to mark formulae explictly.
Then why include it now? It can be added later.
And what to do until then?
Use <em>ax<sup>2</sup> + bx + c = 0</em>
or
<span class="math">ax<sup>2</sup> + bx + c = 0</span>
how to mark math formula? Don't tell us to use microformats.
Ok, I've looked through some archived mail in this list, and I'm convinced
that we need <formula>.
At least it wouldn't be a no-op element (that is, an element which
doesn't
change the appearance of the document unless specially styled).
In the same manner you can remove html and head, they are no-op elements.
formula element is important from structural point of view.
If I was reinventing HTML from scratch now, I would drop HEAD and BODY and
leave just the HTML element. But we have backward compatibility preventing
us from doing this, of course. And, just like I said, a lot of pages
misuse HEAD and BODY just because omitting them or messing them up doesn't
break the page display.
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