- From: Ross Moore <ross.moore@mq.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:51:04 +1100
- To: Paul Topping <pault@dessci.com>
- Cc: Dave Barton <dbarton@mathscribe.com>, "www-math@w3.org" <www-math@w3.org>
Hi Paul, and others, On 08/02/2013, at 9:46 AM, Paul Topping wrote: > Hi Dave, > One thing in favor of our campaign is the relatively low cost of solving it. That's what is so frustrating to us. Google, Microsoft, and Apple each have so much cash that putting a few developers on solving this problem would not even show up on their budgets. After hearing of this current gripe, and following provided links, I was very surprised to see that Apple's Safari was rendering the MathML examples. Of course this is using WebKit, right? --- so I shouldn't really have been surprised. Anyway, I checked the MathML Torture Test page: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.html using my MacBook Pro, and with an (original) iPad. Many of the examples indeed have defects, especially on the iPad concerning expandable brackets, braces, and formatting of super/sub-scripts. Some of this maybe font-related, as it isn't easy to get extra fonts into place on an iPad. So OK, the Webkit stuff isn't perfect yet. (Who really expects it to be ?) But at least Apple hasn't disabled the MathML, as Google seems to be doing. > > Paul My 2c. Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross Moore ross.moore@mq.edu.au Mathematics Department office: E7A-419 Macquarie University tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955 Sydney, Australia 2109 fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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