On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com> wrote: > There really are two basic reasons to support MathML in the browser that > have been given in this thread: > 1. It's needed to allow specifying CSS style for each individual piece of > an equation.
> 2. It's needed to support epub3 natively in browsers. If it looked like I was trying to make point #2, I was communicating poorly. I tried to explain why EPUB publishers want MathML and then argue that the same reasons are still valuable on the Web, too. I'm not trying to argue that Gecko should support MathML because of EPUB. That is, I meant to give reason #3: It's valuable to be able to publish math on the Web in a way that: 1) does not require sending a JS-based renderer along with the data 2) participates in line-breaking and reflow 3) integrates with the patterns of the platform (DOM, Selectors) 4) can be copied and pasted as math (as opposed to an image) 5) already works in 2 out of the 4 major Web engines instead of having to start again from 0 -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
