[webkit-dev] HTML5 & MathML3 entities

[Sausset François]

My aim was not to rush.
I'm currently looking at what needs to be implemented in WebKit to support MathML 3.
I noticed that a lot of entities are not implemented and I first thought it was easy to implement.

After this discussion on the mailing list, it appears not to be so simple.

I filled a bug to continue the discussion and track the progresses in a refactoring of the entity parser:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42041

François Sausset


Le 11 juil. 2010 à 04:21, Maciej Stachowiak a écrit :

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> On Jul 10, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
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>> 10.07.2010, в 04:49, Maciej Stachowiak написал(а):
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>>> Go with the HTML5 / MathML 3 definitions for everything. Our XHTML implementation targets XHTML5, not XHTML 1.0.
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>> I think that xml-entity-names and HTML5 made a poor choice changing the semantics of ⟩ and ⟨ (they used to be CJK punctuation, and now they are suddenly math). These are rendered differently. We should probably take a pragmatic approach, and avoid rushing to be the first to implement this aspect of the specs.
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> I agree we shouldn't rush on potential compatibility-breaking changes, if we can get someone else to do some testing for us first. However I believe Firefox dev builds have the new meanings of ⟩ and ⟨. They haven't discovered a problem yet, as far as I know.
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> Regards,
> Maciej
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