On mar, 2002-02-12 at 12:26, 421621@ingta.unizar.es wrote:
Suggestion #1:
Upload a complete substitution gfx icons for greek symbols. And builtin a easy to use feature...
<Grek>OMEGA</grek> <Grek>A</grek>
to
<img src="/upload/greek/omega.png"> <img src="/upload/greek/alfa.png">
May this help oneline math expresions writing?
Articles that use Greek letters in math expressions currently use the standard HTML character entities: α β ... ω. These should be displayed properly as Greek letters in all current, standards-compliant browsers. There's only a problem for:
* Text-mode browsers which have no Greek/math font available * Older browsers, such as Netscape 4, which don't recognize these entities and thus show the descriptive names α β etc.
Images won't help for text-mode browsers, obviously, so this kind of conversion would only be an improvement for Netscape 4 and other old/marginal browsers. Unfortunately there are still a lot of Netscape 4 users out there, especially on Unix.
If we were to have such a feature, I would recommend using the existing character entities, not some new tag, and making the replacement optional. Perhaps the default might be to use the images if a particular browser/version is reported, and otherwise to leave things alone.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)