On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:44:12AM +0100, Neil Harris wrote:
Why not render TeX directly? Because the MathML "bottleneck" will ensure
that everyone sees the same thing,
and it also provides a way to move eventually to supporting native
MathML in the source, when MathML is a mature, editable, format in most
browsers.
Unless you plan to move to a MathML-only solution on the short term, say two
years or so, I don't see the point of such a dual system. It would make
things more complex than necessary. If you only render TeX then everything
also looks the same to everybody and you have the benefit of a notation that
is easier to read and write. The only drawback I see is that you need to
install TeX and that gif's don't scale when people use different font sizes
but if you look on
www.planetmath.org you can see that it works even then
quite well.
Really, your enthousiasm is greatly appreciated but accesability is quite
important for Wikipedia, so even if Mozilla & IE would fully support MathML
then I doubt that it would switch to a MathML-only set up.
-- Jan Hidders