- From: <juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:08:10 -0700 (PDT)
- To: <www-math@w3.org>
White Lynx said: > >> Visitors can read mathematical formulae >> without plugins, special fonts or without a Mozilla browser thanks to CSS >> techniques. I think that scientific and educative material would be >> accesible to anyone and I am really tired of “you need IE+plugin or >> FF+fonts for seeing this site”. > > There a plans to add some CSS extensions, and ensure that other markup > languages that at the moment do not fit well in the scope of approach will > work in XML+CSS framework, in particular special MathML profile that > admits default style sheet will be designed, certain > subset of ECMA OMML will fit in the scope too and of course different > microformats that if desired may be HTML based can be handled in the same > manner. This will bring real extensibility to MathML and minimize its > dependence on ad hoc support, as once it will be > able to benefit from capabilities of CSS rendering engines (a lot of > things exist canonically in XML+CSS framework and cost nothing to math > community) then small share of math community will not be the obstackle > that discourages implementations. The time when all > functionality was predefined by support or lack of such for some HTML > elements is gone, real extensibility and proper integration with > extensible environment are on agenda, not the > tag soup handling games that bring no real functionality and just > dissipate and waste resources. And all of that is good, but 1) Will be Mozilla interested in CSS rendering of math? Now, it sounds "no". 2) Even if a good MathML 3 CSS module is presented by the WG, how many years would we wait for benefit? Unfortunately, we need solutions for yesterday. Juan R. Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)
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