[whatwg] drawString?

2006-06-04 Thread Lars Schöning
May I suggest the addition of a drawString method with parameters for font type, size and string. In order to achieve usability canvas really requires an equivalent prototype method, however the established prototype functions take immense amounts of clocktime and significantly (and unnessessar

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-04 Thread Anne van Kesteren
Quoting Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You do need to know how to write it though... Need to know how to write a normative DTD??? No, how to write the math markup. Probably based on some English prose. -- Anne van Kesteren

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-04 Thread juanrgonzaleza
James Graham wrote: > > No. I propose that the [X|HT]ML syntax follows the LaTeX model as > closely as possible within the constraints imposed by the XML data > model. This should make it easy for people to write converters which is > the _only_ thing that matters for high adoption. Do you clai

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-04 Thread juanrgonzaleza
James Graham wrote: > > H?kon Wium Lie wrote: >> >> 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? > > I remain sceptical about this. This appears to be not an optimistic atti

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-04 Thread juanrgonzaleza
James Graham wrote: > > I could go on but > at least in academic fields, LaTeX is either the only format accepted > for publication or the preferred format. In mathematics, and theoretical physics sure, in rest of science? I doubt. In chemistry, LaTeX is not preferred for example. > Note also

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics on HTML5

2006-06-04 Thread juanrgonzaleza
Henri Sivonen wrote: > I said that math needs to integrate with the surrounding prose. I did > not say that MathML is integrated right. The point was mainly that > there needs to be an XML syntax rendered by the same engine as the > prose--or at minimum the renderers need to communicate the basel

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics on HTML5

2006-06-04 Thread juanrgonzaleza
Michel Fortin wrote: > > One thing I know however is that the next time I'll have to put an > equation on a web page, I won't go looking for a MathML editor just to > be able to generate the markup, convert the page to XHTML served as > application/xhtml+xml (so that it works with MathML) and