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)