- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:21:30 GMT
- To: R.W.Kaye@bham.ac.uk
- CC: www-math@w3.org
The extension on the file shouldn't matter (it doesn't matter to mozilla, with IE it does sometimes apparently have an effect) But it must be served with an xml mime type (text or applictation /xml or xhtml+xml) If you serve the pages as text/html which is probably the default on your server for .html pages the mathml will not display. BUT (and this is the problem) it seems that my home page at http://mat140.bham.ac.uk/~richard/MSM1Bb/index.html is indexed at google, but none of the others are. I presume this is something to do with the mime type and/or filename I am using. I must admit to being rather upset by this as the whole point of using XHTML and MathML is to make the pages *easier* to index and search rather than harder! Hmm we have a similar setup here (using .xml as the extension and text/xml as the mime type) and google seems to find things. eg http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anag.co.uk+filetype%3Axml+computes+the+QR+factorization+of+a+real+m+by+n+matrix. finds several references to the xhtml+mathml documents that describe routines using such a factori[sz]ation. google does list them as File Format: Unrecognized but the links it provides is to the xhtml files do work. It does appear to be the case that google isn't indexing your files. I must admit that it is probably by luck rather than by design that it is indexing mine, but perhaps if you compare the setups you will find the trick?? If you are happy with your setup and don't want to change anything other than to get google to index the pages, perhaps submitting a sitemap http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html would help (but I've not tried this) David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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