I should clarify that I am not opposed to HTML entities. They’ve been around long enough for the bugs to have been ironed out, and unlike JavaScript, they do not cause memory leaks or infinite loops or other challenges to the efficient management of computational resources if the people who maintain my browser did not do everything exactly right.
Right—to be explicit, then, I agree they are not strictly necessary, still think they would be convenient as things are currently, but also that if the help included a link to unicodelookup or a similar utility (which, if LaTeX is implemented, it should do as part of a “please don’t abuse this feature” note), this advantage mostly goes away and they become pointless after all.
I should clarify that I am not opposed to HTML entities. They’ve been around long enough for the bugs to have been ironed out, and unlike JavaScript, they do not cause memory leaks or infinite loops or other challenges to the efficient management of computational resources if the people who maintain my browser did not do everything exactly right.
Just trying to understand your position.
Right—to be explicit, then, I agree they are not strictly necessary, still think they would be convenient as things are currently, but also that if the help included a link to unicodelookup or a similar utility (which, if LaTeX is implemented, it should do as part of a “please don’t abuse this feature” note), this advantage mostly goes away and they become pointless after all.