Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing?
Vincent Manis (he/him) 21 Aug 2026 16:37 UTC
On 2026-08-21 06:02, Peter McGoron wrote:
> The issue of any "subset of HTML" we use is that there are things that
> people might want to include that get excluded because they are
> difficult.
>
> 1. MathML (I use this. The alternative is JS.)
> 2. SVG (I don't know of an SRFI that uses this, but I don't see any
> reason to get rid of it)
> 3. Images (if we're translating to terminal or LaTeX, then images pose
> an issue. Should the "small" subset of HTML forbid these?)
>
For LaTeX, images pose no problem. If images are supported, there might
be restrictions, e.g., just PNG or JPG or if #2 above is supported, SVG.
As for terminals, a lot of modern terminal programs, and xterm too ☺,
have sixel support, it might be reasonable to document that viewing this
output requires such a program.
-- vincent