Talk:New Vocabularies

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I hand author MathMl and SVG in XHTML pages. Most recently FireFox 3 added the ability to display mathml in svg in xhtml - nested XML namespaces. The languages can and will be learned by many like me who generate math and science materials for academic web sites. Since I author HTML5 using essentially HTML 4.01 strict standards, I can fairly easily shift from an HTML5 compliant document to an XHTML+MathMl+SVG compliant document. This is neither hard nor scary. I suspect the real issue is the draconian error handling that XHTML+MathMl+SVG brings with it, and may be why many authors want to see MathMl and SVG namespaces in HTML. That is an implementor issue, however, and not a language issue. It seems to this naive person that an implementor could choose other options besides a "yellow screen of death" simply because an img tag was not closed/terminated properly.

"an implementor could choose other options" Agreed. Opera already does a decent job (even giving you the option to re-parse the page as HTML. Jeff schiller 16:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)