White Lynx wrote:
Dan Brickley wrote:
It would also be both considerate and sensible
(if anyone does want to undertake such a task) to talk to the
MathML folks first.
So far we are addressing problems that were invented and deployed by MathML
folks.
But you are, apparently, assuming that the problems with MathML are a
result of ignorance on the part of the people working on the spec.
Perhaps there is a reason they invented a language that did not build on
the CSS layout primitives e.g. because those layout primitives are not
sutiable for mathematics (similar to the reason that XUL, though
"CSS-based" employs a large number of specific CSS extensions to work in
a sane way). You have demonstrated that CSS can provide the first 80%
(or whatever) of what's required for laying out maths - but there seems
to be no way forward to address the last 20%.
