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I don't particularly care that it's in the spec, personally. MathML is horrid. This page covers it well: http://aiju.de/rant/XML/MathML http://aiju.de/rant/XML/

I don't particularly care that it's in the spec, personally. MathML is horrid. This page covers it well: http://aiju.de/rant/XML/MathML http://aiju.de/rant/XML/MathML

anon1385 13y ago
If we were going to reject technologies because they were horrid there wouldn't be much of the web left. HTML is horrid. CSS is horrid. Javascript is horrid.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
  The difference here is that there are better alternatives to consider instead.
  - ibotty 13y ago
    which? i prefer _writing_ tex as (nearly) everyone, but read the mozilla thread for arguments, why there is nothing else that might work.
dagw 13y ago
MathML is not meant to written by hand, but to be an easy to implement and easy to parse compiler target.
- sharpneli 13y ago
  This is actually somewhat funny. It combines the best parts of binary and text formats! It's slow to parse just like text and impossible to change by hand just like binary! But seriously. MathML is a huge mistake. They could've designed an actually writable format, but they didn't. It's one of the best examples of XML architects going over the top.