- From: Robert S. Thau <rst@ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 19:22:16 -0400
- To: brian@organic.com, young@cs.purdue.edu
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
Actually, there already is a Java applet which supports display of equations specified using a syntax pretty close to that of the (now expired) HTML3 <math> proposal --- see http://www.geom.umn.edu/~rminer/jmath/ for details and examples. Looking through the examples will also give a feel for some of the drawbacks of this approach at the present state of the technology --- applets take a while to download (the promised support for bundling a set of classes into a compressed zip file should help), and performance isn't that great (which JIT compilers ought to fix). Unfortunately, if I'm not mistaken, this particular applet carries with it the disadvantages of the HTML3 math proposal (in particular, its equations largely specify presentation, and aren't in a form which would allow a symbolic math package to manipulate them easily)... rst
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