Thanks Henri, that's a lot more clear to me than what I've read before in this thread.
The point I've been trying to make is that rather than a separate language for math, what would be better would be suitable extensions of HTML and CSS to cover this, but I don't want to make this thread longer. Benoit 2013/6/6 Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> > 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
