Re: MathML status in Firefox

Karl Tomlinson escribió:
> William F. Hammond writes:
> 
> ...
> These are only going to be useful in FF3 if they have Unicode
> character maps.
> 
>> I think that normal consumers of math on the web cannot be expected to
>> track down and install special fonts.  What is going to be done about
>> that?
> 
> Now that we have Unicode support for mathematical characters and
> Unicode fonts are becoming more common, this is improving.

True, I was amazed seeing how many of my fonts include greek letters and 
math operators in their correct unicode positions.

> However, there are never going to be separate Unicode assignments
> for different sizes of radical glyphs.

I'm not aware of how MathML is rendered into the page in this 
implementation, so this might be nonsense: Is there a technical reason 
to use *glyphs* for radicals? why not *draw* them with lines?

> Web fonts (which are automatically downloaded [and cached] when
> required) are something that may be useful here.  Web font support
> is expected for Firefox 3.1.  See this bug and its dependencies
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70132
> 
> However, to take advantage of this, the special handling of MathML
> stretchy characters needs modification, which could be a future
> project.