- From: Robert Miner <RobertM@dessci.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:20:18 -0600
- To: www-math@w3.org
Hi. Design Science is looking into adding "doctype sniffing" capabilities to MathPlayer so that when IE sees an XTHML document with a proper MathML DOCTYPE declaration, MathPlayer can automatically perform the same kind of transformation as David Carlisle's XSL stylesheet. That would mean that one could publish a document that would work in both Netscape/Mozilla and IE without using the stylesheet. The stylesheet is better than nothing, but it is finicky to work with, so we think will make life much easier for people trying to publish MathML to a cross-platform audience. Because of the way the underlying technology is set up in IE, we basically have to implement separate sniffing algorithms for each character encoding we want to support. Consequently, we a trying to prioritize what encodings to include in an initial release. Clearly UTF-8 and UTF-16 will be supported. Also, encodings that are compatible with ASCII in the sense that anything that looks like an ASCII character really is an ASCII character are easy to handle, so we are leaning toward supporting them as well. (EUC-JP has this property, as well as the various ISO 8859 encodings.) So, the question to this list is are there other encodings you want bad enough to to justify a delay in releasing the first version? All comments are welcome. --Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Robert Miner RobertM@dessci.com MathML 2.0 Specification Co-editor 651-223-2883 Design Science, Inc. "How Science Communicates" www.dessci.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
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