Re: use case: page based scholarly reference?

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:

>
> P.S. I have to say that PLOS is not a really good example for quality. I
> was shocked to see that, on [2], all the numbers in the text are… images!
> It looks horrible in my browser, it is bad in so many ways… Sigh...
>

Just wow! Here's how they mark up the number "1.8 million":

 <span class="inline-formula"><img
src="article/asset?id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0115253.e003.PNG"
class="inline-graphic"></span> million

Human-readable AND accessible. Nice job!*

Is this an automated MathML to image conversion used inappropriately?

Dave

*This paragraph may be sarcastic



> [2]
> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115253
>