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From: "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthony@cathet.us>
To: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: HTML5
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:38:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11723.1407692314@cathet.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140810151725.GC325@iris.usta.de>

Hi Ingo and Kristaps,

Ingo Schwarze writes:
> Why not?  What downside do you see?

I tried to come up with a technical justification to use HTML4 but
could only come up with aesthetic reasons. And along the way realized
two truths about HTML5 that make me uncomfortable in my decision: first,
that parsing HTML5 really is both simpler and more well-defined (HTML4
still had delusions of SGML-grandeur), and second, that there really is
no sane way to format equations in HTML4; I had not considered the
possibility of eqn at all. So consider my objection to HTML5 output
withdrawn.

> > And if we do that, is there any point to switching doctypes?
> 
> Yes, one minor and one major.
> 
> The minor is less doctype/content-type clutter.
> The major is to get MathML for eqn.
> 
> That also explains why i think validating against both 5 and 4.01
> (for non-eqn content) does have some merit.  Again, if that is
> possible, but as far as i understand, it is.

I don't think this is possible; the whole reason Kristaps' patch
can unify things is because it uses some XML-like syntax that is valid
in HTML5 and invalid in HTML4. Despite that, per above I have no
objections to doing that at this point.

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-10 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-09 23:33 HTML5 Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-08-10  2:23 ` HTML5 Ingo Schwarze
2014-08-10 11:39   ` HTML5 Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-08-10 16:12     ` HTML5 Ingo Schwarze
2014-08-10  4:33 ` HTML5 Anthony J. Bentley
2014-08-10 15:17   ` HTML5 Ingo Schwarze
2014-08-10 17:38     ` Anthony J. Bentley [this message]

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