On 7 Feb 2003 at 14:49, Axel Boldt wrote:
Since we probably don't want to write a whole
renderer though, maybe we
should start with Mozilla as display engine. Does Mozilla allows search
plugins that are more intelligent then just handing the request off to
some website?
What about starting with Amaya?
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Disclaimer: I'm not a member of W3C community neither of Amaya
Development team, and this is not an ad.
I've downloaded yesterday fresh (Feb 03) version 7.2
and the stupid smile on my face is getting bigger and bigger with every minute :)
Of course using Amaya won't be a solution for searching problem but Amaya:
* supports MathML rendering (so one only needs to transform
our TeX <math> syntax into MathML and Amaya will do the rest)
* supports SVG (anybody still thinking about future support of SVG in WP?)
* is a browser/editor - you have to click only one icon to change the mode
(so if one smartly design the rest, ie. handling "source code" of articles,
like transforming it to XHTML and back, then every person could edit
the page even without knowing wikisyntax or Wikipedia software,
Amaya is WYSIWYG)
* support for annotations which can be held in local file on posted
to a server (just imagine Wikipedia as a server for such annotations!
If one browse off-line and see an error then he/she adds an annotation
and saves it locally and when he/she has the access to the Net posts
to the Wikipedia and Wikipedians correct)
Disadvantages, that I've found out after one day of playing with Amaya:
no elaborated HTML, no scripts and a bit harsh interface
but Amaya is free and open source project.
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