  Re: SVG and MathML in text/html  From: David Dailey
<david.dailey@sru.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:48:03 -0400
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<SSFDNS01niSnRMWuLn500008edc@ssfdns01.srunet.sruad.edu>  Hi
Doug,  I'm certain I don't understand all of the issues
discussed at  http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/SVGInTextHTML, but as
someone who  teaches SVG in the classroom, I very much agree
with the notion that  the ability to put SVG inline into HTML is
very important from the  learner's perspective. How its DOM
would relate to that of the HTML  I'm not quite clear, but here
are some of my thoughts on the issue.  VML, bless its heart, had
the advantage that once you did your little  namespace hoopla-
dance (uttering incantations that would have made  the Honeywell
GCOS manual writers downright gleeful) there you were  in HTML
with your vector graphics. They could dance on the <table>s  and
sniff the bitmaps: all in one common getElementById-happy-world
holding hands with JavaScript and CSS.  SVG on the other hand
had to live in a se