Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-10 Thread White Lynx
Oistein E. Andersen wrote: each mark-up element must be kept as short as possible. Some people argue that short element names being misleading and not intuitive does not actually improve readability, some people like short element names as they are more convenient for authoring. The

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-10 Thread juanrgonzaleza
?istein E. Andersen wrote: root3of125/root was already proposed in HTML Math of 1994 and rejected because technical issues. Also rejected in ISO12083 math of 1995. What i meant was to use root3of125/root as a shorthand notation for something like rootorder3/orderof125/of/root, in which case

Re: [whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5

2006-06-10 Thread Michel Fortin
Le 10 juin 2006 à 5:01, White Lynx a écrit : I do not think that automatic mixing of roman and italic would be a good idea at the browser side if one search a rapid cheap implementation fully compatible with current standards. That is probably quite right. Yes, roman as a default is Ok