[whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

[Anne van Kesteren]

Quoting White Lynx <whitelynx at operamail.com>:
>> I think you make a compelling case for adding math to HTML the simple
>> way. Personally, I'm open to adding it to HTML5. How much would it add
>> to the specification?
>
> In ISO 12083 Electronic Manuscript Format description of   
> mathematical markup occupies about 7 pages, in our case I expect   
> specification to be slightly larger (let's say about 10-15 pages).   
> It should not take too much space as presentational burden is passed  
>  to style sheets, so detailed formatting instructions will not be   
> part of specification. Size of extra DTD will be about 4K in case of  
>  plain DTD, if modularized in XHTML 1.1 fashion it will be larger   
> (about 10K).

So WHATWG doesn't really care about DTDs. (There are two people  
involved with that though for validating.) What's needed for a  
specification is error handling, how it interoperates with existing  
HTML, etc.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>