- From: Lineaer Algebraiker <ma104@math.uio.no>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:01:54 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
- cc: ma104@math.uio.no
"Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org> wrote > In message <199607101441.QAA30635@gilgamesj.uio.no>, Lineaer Algebraiker writes > : > >Has the whole math effort died? > > Nope. See: > > http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Activity Nothing interesting or new there... > > > I seem to remember that we were promised = > >results, and at least an idea of a timetable by 1st july. > > I don't recall such a timetable. Does anyone know where > this came from? I saw it first in www-html Digest V92 #102 - which I now have found out was in part a direct copy of http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Wilbur/ where it says: "A working draft with greater details on each element will be available for review shortly. The expected release date is July 1. " On closer reading this page doesn't explicitly mention math, but it's getting to be about time! > > >http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Math/ > > > >is dated 1996/03/14 ... > > >I have a *lot* of work to be done which I have been forced to postpone be= > >cause = > >'they' nuked the 3.0 standard :-( > > Nobody 'nuked' anything. It was just a case of lack of a critical > mass of resources to get the spec finished _and_ the code deployed. > Again, please see the HTML Activity statement. see comment above... > > By the way: one of the places resources were lacking was in the HTML > working group of the IETF. The IETF is an all-volunteer > organization. So there was no 'they'. There were only folks who were > doing the work, and folks sitting on the side, not doing the work. > > >There are quite a few of us out here waiting for the standard. > > Is it really a standard you want, or some software that supports > math functionality? First and foremost I want the STANDARD!!! Then, when thats established, I want software (anything that runs on Unix/Linux, and, of course, Netscape) that supports the standard. If I only wanted "software that supports math functionality" then I could have stayed with Arena, or done a number of other stupid things that ensured that I was the only one that could read my web pages... (They're in Norwegian already, so I feel no need to decrease my potential audience any further ;-) I ***DON'T*** want plug-ins, inline gifs or what-have-you. latex2html does that job more than well enough (sorry Ping, but your stuff is useless to me because of this, as far as I could see). HTML3.0 worked just fine for my purposes, except that noone supported it in the end; I didn't quite understand what people had against it. It is *very* frustrating to have to sit and wait aroud so long for a standard I have no real influence on. Could we at least have some dates? Will my grandchildren be able to code math directly in html?;-( I just hope the end-product uses some experience from LaTeX, which every mathematician knows is the only sensible way to write mathematics. <fear>Or does MS's membership in W3C mean that we'll get something based on <yuck> Word</yuck>?</fear> Whilst I'm at it, why not just add a new tag or two: <latex><text>here I can write all the math I want...<text>\int^\alpha_\beta \sin x dx</latex>? > > Dan > What I really want to know is: will we have something soon (ie. a math standard and support from 'most' browsers) or should I start my own alternative to the W3C, which, after all, functions far from ideally from my point of view? -- James Ø. Baum MA104 Lineær Algebra Fjernundervisningsprosjektet - MA104 Linear Algebra 'Open University Project' - Oslo, Norway http://www.math.uio.no/~ma104/ #include <standard/disclaimer>
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