RE: [EXTERNAL] Notable mention of rich math applications, "details-on-demand"

Very cool stuff. A less difficult way of achieving the pop-up annotations of the first link is to put href’s on the variables. Perhaps that’s what Bruce and David are doing…

Thanks,
Murray

From: Deyan Ginev<mailto:deyan.ginev@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 9:25 AM
To: public-mathml4@w3.org<mailto:public-mathml4@w3.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Notable mention of rich math applications, "details-on-demand"

Dear MathML Refresh enthusiasts,

A very pleasing review article was published at DistillPub today,
examining the various communication aspects of "interactive articles".

In Figure 8 they have a small SVG showcase of a feature some of us
here have experimented with in the past via MathML, providing a short
"legend" of each constituent of a math expression.

Pieces of their example directly overlap with our main scope (names
for dot product, integral over closed surface), and pieces are in the
gray zone we are currently discussing (q is "the amount of charge in
coulombs")

https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdistill.pub%2F2020%2Fcommunicating-with-interactive-articles%2F%23details-math&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cmurrays%40exchange.microsoft.com%7C416ae94ca77c4468495908d8566f4e0a%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C0%7C0%7C637354383352852160&amp;sdata=RlIcBzOkmBNSBBrfnQkMNL9xn19tJmnhdVCRBXMCcKc%3D&amp;reserved=0

They also linked to a nice older resource I remember, which seemingly
introduced the didactic technique of coloring math in web documents
with colored text in parallel:

https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbetterexplained.com%2Farticles%2Fcolorized-math-equations%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cmurrays%40exchange.microsoft.com%7C416ae94ca77c4468495908d8566f4e0a%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C0%7C0%7C637354383352852160&amp;sdata=DPD2kOpiBDb6VGEuhjopZUKevR9U1vBGnPG3%2FcqLnIs%3D&amp;reserved=0

One thing to remark is that this "details-on-demand" application is
out-of-scope for our "a11y semantics" charter. At the same time, the
application is - at least in my mind - requiring the same "degree of
annotation" to be enabled, as the minimal requirements are 1) knowing
the operator structure/content tree and 2) knowing the
names/properties of the constituent objects. So this may be a
"sibling" or "cousin" application to the a11y/information retrieval
applications we've been discussing.

Something to chew on, and wishing everyone a great weekend!

Greetings,
Deyan