- From: Robert Miner <RobertM@dessci.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 05:13:11 -0500
- To: ping@zesty.ca
- CC: hammond@math.albany.edu, www-math@w3.org
Hi. > MINSE enabled all of these user agents and more, including text-mode > browsers, on all platforms, to display math six years ago (and today), > without authors having to jump through the hoops necessary to get MathML > to appear in just the particular browsers and configurations you listed. Sure, and imaged-based documents created with MathType, latex2html or Photoshop for that matter are also viewable in virtually any browser. But to use MINSE for image generation, as opposed to a widely-deployed, well-supported, and easy-to-use tool like MathType, your authors had to use your proprietary pseudo-semantic markup, commit to routing all their web traffic through a 'polymediator' server not under their control, and give up on compatibility with other Web stabdards such as XML, XSL, DOM, and CSS. Those are substantial drawbacks. --Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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