On Sep 20, 2008, at 01:41, Ozob the Great wrote:
I am concerned about the existence of HTML5's var. This was
brought to my attention during a technical debate on Wikipedia which
amounted to: Where is use of var appropriate?
One can use var instead of i to style a variable or placeholder
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The use cases for var probably aren't strong enough to warrant its
addition to HTML at this stage if it hadn't been in HTML already--you might
as well use i. However, given that var has already been in HTML for a
long
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The use cases for var probably aren't strong enough to warrant its
addition to HTML at this stage if it hadn't been in HTML already--you might
as well use i.
Ozob the Great wrote:
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The use cases for var probably aren't strong enough to warrant its
addition to HTML at this stage if it
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Andrew Sidwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ozob the Great wrote:
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:
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The use cases for var probably
. Parameters in
equations are incidental.
Chris
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I am concerned about the existence of HTML5's var
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Kristof Zelechovski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In short, you should mark functions and constant parameters with VAR as
well.
The spec says that var represents a variable. To mark non-variables with
var is a misuse of markup; it's like surrounding computer
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.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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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
Ozob the Great wrote:
Then var steps on MathML's toes: It duplicates functionality.
Not necessarily; a program variable should certainly not be marked up
with MathML.
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Ozob the Great [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Ozob the Great wrote:
Making HTML that much richer would require duplicating a large chunk of
MathML, which is undesirable.
There's
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Edward Z. Yang
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Ozob the Great wrote:
Then var steps on MathML's toes: It duplicates functionality.
Not necessarily; a program variable should certainly not be marked up
with MathML.
Conceded. I believe that in a mathematical
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Garrett Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Ozob the Great [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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Ozob the Great wrote:
Making HTML that much richer would
I am concerned about the existence of HTML5's var. This was brought to my
attention during a technical debate on Wikipedia which amounted to: Where is
use of var appropriate? The problem is that while var can be used to
distinguish variables from non-variables, there are many other mathematical
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Ozob the Great [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thoughts?
It doesn't work in any browser.
Be creative and use classes.
.function
.identifier
.operator
.paren
.bracket
You might even be able to find some microformat for that. (Microformat
is becoming a bit of a
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