- From: Manuel Rego Casasnovas <rego@igalia.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:45:22 +0200
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org>
Hi, On 03/10/16 04:47, Florian Rivoal wrote: > - MathML has been stagnating for a long time, and implementations do not seem to be making much progress. There is no reason to believe that implementations (either visual or screen readers) will improve sufficiently any time soon (or ever) to make the previous two problems go away. Actually, there's been some work recently around MathML that some of you might not be aware of. As you probably know MathML has been supported by Mozilla for a long time in Firefox, you can check it using the MathML Torture Test [1]. WebKit also had an implementation that is now more or less similar to the one in Firefox thanks to the work done by Igalia in the last year: https://webkit.org/blog/6803/improvements-in-mathml-rendering/ On top of that, we've an experimental branch to add MathML support in Chromium too [2], and we're in conversations with Google to see if we could rely on this work to bring MathML back to Chromium. Just to add more context, there's a MathML implementation guide [3] and test suite [4] developed by the MathML Association, that have been used as reference on the implementations of these 3 engines (Gecko, WebKit and Chromium). Apart from that, past year we were also doing some work regarding MathML and accessibility in Firefox, to add speech support for MathML content to the Orca screen reader: https://blog.grain-of-salt.com/index.php/2015/09/23/new-in-orca-3-18-firefox-support-rewrite-and-mathml/ Last, Microsoft has stated that they'll take a look to MathML support: https://twitter.com/SampsonMSFT/status/727199790736384001 Of course, like for many other specs there is a lack of resources to implement and properly support MathML on different browsers and platform screen readers. However it seems clear that there is some stuff ongoing around MathML lately. As you can see, at least from Igalia, we've been doing some contributions to improve MathML and we could do even more if we've a stronger support. Cheers, Rego [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/MathML_Torture_Test [2] https://github.com/fred-wang/chromium.src/tree/mathml [3] http://www.mathml-association.org/MathMLinHTML5/ [4] http://tests.mathml-association.org/
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