Re: Showing a message in non-MathML browsers

> I want to display a message to explain to my readers why their browser 
> doesn't display MathML correctly, but to hide the message if they are 
> using a MathML enabled browser.  I have achieved partial success:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
> <mphantom>
> <mtext>
> This document is formatted using MathML--see &lt;http://www.w3.org/Math/&gt;.
> It won't look very good unless you view it with a MathML enabled browser. 
> One such browser is Amaya--see &lt;http://www.w3.org/Amaya/&gt;.  There is
> also a MathML-enabled version of Mozilla for Linux--see
> &lt;http://www.mozilla.org/releases/&gt;.
> </mtext>
> </mphantom>
> </math>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Is there a better way?  

I guess it's a good idea.
> 
> I'd like to put hypertext links in the message, but haven't figured 
> out how.  
> 
> The "mphantom" element leaves some ugly horizontal space.  I've
> tried to remove it with an "mpadded" element, but to no avail.

We'll try to fix that in the next release.

Received on Monday, 11 June 2001 02:50:46 UTC