[whatwg] Can <var> possibly work?

[Garrett Smith]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Ozob the Great <ozob1337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> <bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ozob the Great wrote:
>>>
>>> Making HTML that much richer would require duplicating a large chunk of
>>> MathML, which is undesirable.
>>
>> There's already ongoing work to allow MathML and SVG vocabularies to be
>> expressed in the text/html serialization of HTML5.
>
> Then <var> steps on MathML's toes: It duplicates functionality.

I see.  So it sounds like you are proposing that the <var> tag be
deprecated.  Is that right?

Garrett

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> Ozob