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** Ease of implementation (are UAs willing to implement new formats?) | ** Ease of implementation (are UAs willing to implement new formats?) | ||
** Resistance to errors (e.g. not brittle in the face of syntax errors) | ** Resistance to errors (e.g. not brittle in the face of syntax errors) | ||
* '''Writing a document by hand, with vector graphic icons'''<br>Priorities: | |||
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** Good caching behaviour | |||
* '''Writing documents that include diagrams that include typographically-correct mathematics''' | * '''Writing documents that include diagrams that include typographically-correct mathematics''' | ||
Revision as of 18:15, 25 March 2008
This page summarises the problems discussed in the e-mails that ended up in the html-parsing-rules-namespaces-discussion folder.
- Putting an equation in a Web page
Priorities:- Maintainability
- Searchability
- Accessibility
- Typographically-sound printing
- Ease of authoring (are authors willing to learn new formats?)
- Ease of import from existing documents
- Ease of implementation (are UAs willing to implement new formats?)
- Resistance to errors (e.g. not brittle in the face of syntax errors)
- Migrating from LaTeX to HTML
Priorities:- Fidelity
- Writing a document by hand, with inline diagrams imported from a graphics package
Priorities:- Compatibility with existing graphics packages
- Scriptable (retained-mode, with DOM support, without requiring cross-frame scripting)
- Round-tripping (the ability to take image fragments from a Web page and edit them)
- Ease of implementation (are UAs willing to implement new formats?)
- Resistance to errors (e.g. not brittle in the face of syntax errors)
- Writing a document by hand, with vector graphic icons
Priorities:- Maintainability
- Good caching behaviour
- Writing documents that include diagrams that include typographically-correct mathematics
- Animating Web page content (hypertext, vector graphics) without using script
Priorities:- Set or animate sizes, positions, opacities, colors, transforms (basically most attributes and properties)
- Time-based triggering, event-based triggering
- Inlined (for simple web pages) and non-inlined animations (to promote separation of content and presentation)
- Linear and spline interpolation
- Writing highly interactive, graphically intensive sites
Priorities:- Searchability
- Accessibility
- Writing applications that contain graphics that represent custom data, while including that data for script manipulation.
Priorities:- Embedding custom non-visible data in an HTML document for scripting purposes
- Ability to avoid ID clashes in multiple-document transclution
- Forward compatible (so that future extensions don't introduce name clashes)
Areas for research
- What is the most widely known way of authoring mathematics?
- What human-editable source language are equations mostly serialised in today?
Supporting data
- Animation is a desired capability for web authors of Rich Internet Applications. Of the top Ajax Javascript toolkits listed on Wikipedia, all support some level of animation, each in a different, and possibly incompatible, way: