Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:33 AM, L. David Baron<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2009-08-19 19:39 -0700, net-buoy wrote:
>> Thought this bit of news as posted on moodle.org where some folk are
>> trying to promote use of mathml via asciimathml and other options was
>> worth sharing:
>>
>> "I spoke personally with Chris Hoffman of Mozilla Foundation about
>> MathML and he told me that the project leader bailed out for some
>> other project a while ago. This means the project is basically
>> stalled. The project page was last modified September, 2006, and most
>> links on that page are broken."
>
> There's been a good bit of work on MathML since then to keep it
> working after the switch to cairo and the reflow branch landing
> (mostly by Karl Tomlinson, I think).  I think this means your
> message's subject is an overstatement.
>
> However, I don't think there's been much, if any, new feature work
> on MathML, although I might be missing something.

That's unfortunate.  There is plenty work that could and should be done
with the MathML support in Firefox--including accessibility work.

I thought Mozilla was looking to revive the project and apply a bit
of resources to MathML enhancements.


-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics