- From: Nico Poppelier <n.poppelier@elsevier.nl>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:22:57 +0100
- To: "Gregory A. Landrum" <landrum@hal9000.ac.rwth-aachen.de>
- cc: www-math@w3.org
>>>>> "Gregory A. Landrum" <landrum@hal9000.ac.rwth-aachen.de> writes: Gregory> Of course, the problem with all of these things, is that Gregory> they are not part of the HTML standard, so plugins are Gregory> required. This inevitably limits the portability of Gregory> whatever is used. For example, I am sitting at an IBM Gregory> workstation running AIX. This means that I cannot use Gregory> most plugins. Even IBM's TechExplorer doesn't work on my machine. Doesn't work YET. Soon it will! Gregory> I realize that this problem isn't even remotely the fault Gregory> of the working group, but is more a consequence of the Gregory> economic factors driving the development of the HTML Gregory> specification. I guess I am doomed to disappointment. Gregory> [...] Gregory> You guys are working towards a markup Gregory> language for math, not some way of getting math into the Gregory> HTML standard. I was confused, and I directed my Gregory> complaints at the wrong target. There will never be support for maths in HTML, true. Science publishing -- scientific communication in general -- is too much of a niche market for that (the same argument holds for the SGML systems or Web-publishing systems that support scientific communication). But the recent announcement by Netscape that they will make the source code for Netscape freely available is good news. This will make it easier for our working group or for other parties interested in MathML to add support for MathML to (one of) the most popular Web browser(s). Nico ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Nico A.F.M. Poppelier Elsevier Science Product Application Development Email: n.poppelier@elsevier.nl. Molenwerf 1, 1014 AG Amsterdam Phone: +31-20-4853482. The Netherlands Fax: +31-20-4853706. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The sword of Charlemagne the Just Is ferric oxide, known as rust.
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