http://www.in-nomine.org/2009/07/08/mathml-and-svg-in-html-5-with-firefox/ The focused mind can pierce through stone... Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:53:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.in-nomine.org/2009/07/08/mathml-and-svg-in-html-5-with-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-4681 Ben Crowell Fri, 14 May 2010 17:01:43 +0000 http://www.in-nomine.org/?p=320#comment-4681 Re Fredo's comment, I think the issues are that (1) xhtml failed to be widely adopted, so it's seen as a dead end, and (2) people want to be able to write a single web page, rather than a nonstandard one for IE and a standard one for every other browser. If I write html5+mathml, then (in the very near future), firefox will render it correctly, and IE users will at least get some rendering of the page that will be somewhat readable. Re Fredo’s comment, I think the issues are that (1) xhtml failed to be widely adopted, so it’s seen as a dead end, and (2) people want to be able to write a single web page, rather than a nonstandard one for IE and a standard one for every other browser. If I write html5+mathml, then (in the very near future), firefox will render it correctly, and IE users will at least get some rendering of the page that will be somewhat readable.

]]> http://www.in-nomine.org/2009/07/08/mathml-and-svg-in-html-5-with-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-4169 asmodai Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:28:12 +0000 http://www.in-nomine.org/?p=320#comment-4169 Well, the problem lies that XHTML 1.1 needs to be sent as application/xhtml+xml and any malformed document tends to trigger very scary, for an end-user, messages about wellformedness. Add to that that now the XHTML 2 work group will be disbanded later this year, the only new HTML specification will be HTML 5. So the only option you have in the near future will be HTML 5 for MathML. The best part is that SVG and MathML are integral parts of the specification. So this means that we can finally see some more widespread implementations. My Opera contact says that there's work done, so maybe Opera will add more support for it in the 10.x release series. I also have good hopes that Chrome/Chromium will add this support. Well, the problem lies that XHTML 1.1 needs to be sent as application/xhtml+xml and any malformed document tends to trigger very scary, for an end-user, messages about wellformedness. Add to that that now the XHTML 2 work group will be disbanded later this year, the only new HTML specification will be HTML 5. So the only option you have in the near future will be HTML 5 for MathML.
The best part is that SVG and MathML are integral parts of the specification. So this means that we can finally see some more widespread implementations. My Opera contact says that there’s work done, so maybe Opera will add more support for it in the 10.x release series.
I also have good hopes that Chrome/Chromium will add this support.

]]> http://www.in-nomine.org/2009/07/08/mathml-and-svg-in-html-5-with-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-4168 Fredo Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:47:05 +0000 http://www.in-nomine.org/?p=320#comment-4168 Just one thing I don’t entirely understand: If Firefox 3.5 is the only browser with sufficient HTML5 support, but Firefox also and for some time now supports XHTML1.1, why would one need MathML in HTML5? Is it just about saving that few characters for the namespace declaration? Just one thing I don’t entirely understand: If Firefox 3.5 is the only browser with sufficient HTML5 support, but Firefox also and for some time now supports XHTML1.1, why would one need MathML in HTML5? Is it just about saving that few characters for the namespace declaration?

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