- From: Neil Soiffer <NeilS@dessci.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:12:22 -0800
- To: "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAESRWkBMruAoQLMe1xY2HQbD04Q7etDbuOnL6WNoDz=dLvpgNg@mail.gmail.com>
Chrome 24 had MathML in it. But they plan to turn it off in Chrome 25!!! http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152430#c32 says Note that MathML has had to be turned off because the code is not > yet production ready. We hope to turn it on in some future release. > We plan to announce this in the Chrome 25 release notes. > This is because of a minor layout bug for which a fix has already been submitted. Apparently the folks at google don't care about math much and just want to see it die -- the support that is in there was done by someone who volunteered his time for a year and finally had to go back to doing paid work. One easy step to show your support for math in Chrome is to go to the above link and click on the star in the above left and to get everyone else you know to do the same. That says you care about this bug being fixed. A harder step is to find a way to get google to wake up to the reality that math is used in the classroom everyday and is one of the three "r"s (as the saying goes in the US). Not supporting it is a disservice to education around the world and to science, math, and engineering in general. So blog about Chrome's killing math support, tweet about, or create the next viral video about it. If you care about math support in browsers, do something to show you care! Neil Soiffer
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