alt Hacker NewsWe will continue to have "workarounds" even after MathML because it is not an authoring-friendly markup. My ideal in this regard is a simplified eqn-like markup, which is not hard to write by hand nor hard to parse either.
We will continue to have "workarounds" even after MathML because it is not an authoring-friendly markup. My ideal in this regard is a simplified eqn-like markup, which is not hard to write by hand nor hard to parse either.
Yes, but those workarounds will be author-side ones. Like how HTML isn't very friendly to write by hand for many, so CMSes use e.g. Markdown or WYSIWYG to make it friendlier. In the same way, there will always be preprocessors in authoring tools that might convert e.g. TeX notation to MathML.
My point is that "fast" in those kinds of workarounds wouldn't be a problem for visitors of a site because all the browser gets is just native MathML.