- From: Patrick Ion <ion@ams.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:20:32 -0400
- To: "<juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com>" <juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com>
- Cc: <www-math@w3.org>
[Note to all: I decided to chop up my comments into sections since otherwise this would be another very long message.] Dear Juan, >> >> Yes, _today_ (but not then) _many_ (but not most, if you take market >> share into account) browsers have _decent_ (but neither complete, >> nor consistent) implementation of CSS. > > Then _none_ browser had support for MathML. Instead promoting MathML > support, CSS would be improved and promoted _then_. > Actually, there is growing browser support for MathML. The situation is better in regard to rendering than it was, for instance, while Firefox had its big font problems from about version 1.3 to 1.5, while Safari could do nothing at all with MathML, while Opera had not developed as far, etc. And I gather plug-ins are also widely deployed. It does not follow from the present situation that only the improvement of CSS handling should be expected, or that only that should be called for. I'll be looking for better MathML rendering, especially natively, but also through CSS and maybe SVG, if necessary with XSL or script transformations helping. And we'll all be hoping for better access to fonts that cover more of Unicode. Patrick
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