Re: STIXfonts & Mozilla MathML?
William F Hammond <[email protected]>
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Karl Tomlinson <[email protected]> writes: > Ray Kiddy writes: > >> I am hoping that, someday, I can use MathML on a clean Firefox >> without having to go install extra fonts. ... >> Is this license Moz-compatible? Do others want to see the MathML >> included in more intuitive way? > > This would be nice. > > We don't really want to add another megabyte to the Firefox > download and install for every use but an option or partially > automated download would be good. Not every use, but every user is interested in documents that unbeknownst to her contain math. If we're not careful, this kind of restriction could become an obstacle to substantial deployment of MathML in web pages. The additional download time is not significant. For example, these days people commonly retrieve pdf files like http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/ssherw/physflow/pfn/Meetings/Nottingham/Presentations/Notts%20Physiome%20Project%202005%20small.pdf -- a document with math -- that are the size of the Firefox download. Items of that size today require 10 seconds through an at-home cable modem connection here in New York. Adding the STIX fonts would change that to 10.8 seconds. Add to the clamor at bugzilla in support of fixing bug 295193: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295193 -- Bill