[whatwg] Web Forms 2.0 Feedback

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Apr 13 04:03:53 PDT 2005


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
> 
> I cannot agree. We should not mix typographical presentation for 
> presentation sake and typographical presentation for semantic reason. 
> While it may be not a big deal in chemistry, it is not so in math.

This may be a good way of putting it in the spec: "typographical 
conventions with specific meanings (as opposed to typographical 
presentation for presentation's sake)".

> Or is E=mc2 same as E=mc<sup>2</sup>?
> Do log4nm and log<sub>4</sub>n<sup>m</sup> differ?

Good examples, I'll use this in the spec (assuming that's ok with you!).

Thanks,
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