[whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

Alexey Feldgendler alexey at feldgendler.ru
Tue Jun 20 04:05:19 PDT 2006


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:53:32 +0700, Robert O'Callahan  
<robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:

> If MathML is as bad --- and CSS2.1 as adequate --- as some say, then it
> should be easy to create a microformat that becomes more popular than  
> MathML.

For math, verbosity of a language is very important. Because a microformat  
will be significantly more verbose than an HTML extension would be, it's  
doubtful whether such microformat can become popular, even if an HTML  
extension would.


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