Re: mathml with netscape 7.1 and Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6

David Carlisle said:
>
> The extension is irrelevant (according to the specs) and even in IE
> where it is used as a hint as to the mime type, it's the mime type
> that's more important.

<blockquote>
We treat XHTML documents differently depending on the mime type (or file
suffix if files are loaded from local discs).
</blockquote>

[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XML_in_Mozilla]

> 2) The original HTML 4 DTD is removed from the tree, but there i no xml PI
> declaration.

> The XML declaration isn't a PI

Right! You are very stronger after vacations :-)

i would say "pseudo-PI" as here

[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla's_DOCTYPE_sniffing]

> and it wouldn't mean anything in a DOM
> anyway as its main purpose is to specify the encoding used in a
> linearisation of an XML document so has no meaning in a tree model where
> all characters are unicode.

In some cases the presence of the declaration can force quirks mode
(depending of the MIME of course). Behavior is different, I do not know if
DOMs generated in each case are exactly equal or not.

> again mime types don't really mean much by the time you have an
> model in memory.

I do not know.

> The js mechanism works the other way, with pages being served as html
> and mozilla transforming to xml.

> David

Well, i did some tests and i think that is being rendered in the ASCIIMath
case is not xhtml+mathml as you said some messages ago. The final doc is
not well-formed therefore technically it cannot be called xml.

I said you that final DOM contains a html mime, but i forget enter the
full tag then

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

...

<p>
<b>Example:</b> Solving the quadratic equation.
Suppose <math title="ax^2+bx+c=0"><mstyle fontfamily="serif"
displaystyle="true"
mathcolor="red"><mi>a</mi><msup><mi>x</mi><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>+</mo><mi>b</mi><mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>c</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></mstyle></math>
and <math title="a!=0"><mstyle fontfamily="serif" displaystyle="true"
mathcolor="red"><mi>a</mi><mo>&#8800;</mo><mn>0</mn></mstyle></math>.

...


Juan R.

Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)

Received on Thursday, 31 August 2006 17:01:36 UTC