On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Kristof Zelechovski <giecr...@stegny.2a.pl> wrote: > Vulgar fractions should be supported in hypertext markup without recourse to > MathML. They are vulgar, after all.
> Requiring the full-blown math rendering engine for everyday business > activities, Um, HTML5 requires MathML, so arguing against it is pointless. > cooking and the like is hardly acceptable for authors that use vulgar > fractions > for quantities and prices (the latter perhaps historical) but do not > understand > much in mathematics (it is quite possible). What's an Author? is it a person or a piece of software. I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect that software allow users to enter strange numbers and for the software to generate HTML5 compatible MathML syntax.