Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

Alex Milowski writes:

> 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."

Walter's comment kind of needs to be read with the knowledge that
he is advocating an alternative technology.

But, as Walter indicates in another comment, even though the
volunteers that have done a lot of work on MathML in Mozilla in
the past have not been active recently, that does not mean that
Mozilla is not interested.

>> 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.

Frédéric Wang recently added the menclose feature:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297467

and Mozilla would welcome other contributions.

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

It takes resources just to keep MathML in Gecko while changes are
made to Gecko's infrastructure and to ensure that supporting
MathML doesn't compromise the safety of using a browser.
Mozilla has been applying resources here.
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