Hello,
I saw a thread from last August on the status of MathML support, and am writing to inquire if there has been any activity since.
As co-chair of the W3C Math Interest Group, an editor of the MathML spec, and one of the authors of the MathPlayer plug-in for Internet Explorer, I am interested in doing what I can to help.
--Robert
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On Dec 8, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Robert Miner wrote:
I saw a thread from last August on the status of MathML support, and am writing to inquire if there has been any activity since.
None, so far as I know.
As co-chair of the W3C Math Interest Group, an editor of the MathML spec, and one of the authors of the MathPlayer plug-in for Internet Explorer, I am interested in doing what I can to help.
There are two things to look at.
First, is the actual conversion to MathML; currently only a couple of very simple stub bits are supported, eg nothing where it would actually be useful. :) The TeX preparser which produces HTML and MathML output is written in ocaml which unfortunately is perhaps an impediment to wide hacking on it. Currently more functions are supported for HTML output than MathML simply because the work hasn't been done.
Second, is producing appropriate output markup. The current system will embed the MathML code directly into the XHTML output. This works in Mozilla when the wiki is configured to send an application/xml+xhtml Content-type for pages, but not when using text/html (as is default because not all browsers support this and we can't currently guarantee well-formed markup at all times).
Does the MathPlayer work with directly embedded code, or does it require some sort of plug-in-style usage?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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