Re: HOWTO implement cross-browser-compatible MathML

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

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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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Received on Thursday, 17 October 2002 06:13:49 UTC