RE: MathML won't display (or: what triggers mathplayer behaviour?)

Thanks for that summary, Jacques. I'll keep it in mind when we move forward with our MathML project.

Yes, hopefully it will suffice.

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques Distler [mailto:distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 6:07 PM
> To: Waters, Michael, Springer US
> Cc: Robert Miner; R.W.Kaye@bham.ac.uk; www-math@w3.org; 
> William F. Hammond
> Subject: Re: MathML won't display (or: what triggers 
> mathplayer behaviour?)
> 
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> On May 29, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Waters, Michael, Springer US wrote:
> 
> > Just now I confirmed that observation by alternately adding and  
> > removing a "AddCharset UTF-8" directive to Apache's httpd.conf  
> > file. By adding that 1 directive, stopping/starting the server,  
> > >>AND<< removing the local browser cache, not just refreshing the  
> > page, I was able to prevent the triggering of MathPlayer on the  
> > simplest MathML demo page, thereby showing the XML tree. To re- 
> > enable the correct MathPlayer behavior, I removed the directive,  
> > stoppped/started the server, >>AND<< removed the local browser  
> > cache, going back to the default application/xhtml+xml MIME type  
> > for .xhtml and .xht files.
> 
> OK. I give up, then.
> 
> IE+MathPlayer gets
> 
>       Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml
> 
> All XHTML-UA's get
> 
>      Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8
> 
> HTML-UA's (including IE without MathPlayer) get
> 
>      Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> 
> Instiki pages are  served with a
> 
>      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;  
> charset=UTF-8" />
> 
> This is ignored by XHTML-UA's. They get the encoding from the HTTP  
> headers. (For present purposes, I am avoiding an <?xml?> 
> declaration,  
> so as not to have to deal with IE in quirks mode.)
> 
> IE+MathPlayer is an HTML-UA masquerading as an XHTML-UA. So it will,  
> presumably, get the encoding from the <meta> element.
> 
> Hopefully, that will suffice.
> 
> Jacques
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