- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 02:14:31 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
As an aside, even now that most browsers (per https://caniuse.com/mathml) do support MathML, it seems that not all browsers can currently reflow/break formulae that overrun the viewport width by default. Taking an example (artificially lengthened by repeating it a few times) https://cdpn.io/pen/debug/poQZBXY (editable codepen at https://codepen.io/patrickhlauke/pen/poQZBXY), while Firefox does properly reflow this, in Chrome the entire MathML line is always rendered as one continuous block, and causes horizontal scrolling if it goes beyond the edge of the viewport. So while we can make an argument that for new content, there is now a technology that allows authors to present mathematics with "text" rather than images (satisfying the 1.4.5 Images of Text clause of "If the technologies being used can achieve the visual presentation...", if we want to see formulae as text), this may *still* not help at the moment for 1.4.10 Reflow if one of the main browser engines used today still doesn't know how to actually reflow MathML. P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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