Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

On 23/08/09 7:41 PM, Alex Milowski wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Robert O'Callahan<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Mozilla staff are currently maintaining our MathML support (i.e., keeping it
>> working as other things change around it) and willing to review and land
>> contributions to improve it, but we aren't going to invest in any major
>> improvements until MathML becomes a lot more popular on the Web. We already
>> support a very large subset of MathML and there's just no point in extending
>> that until people start using what we've already implemented.
>
> That seems somewhat circular in that until there is a high quality
> implementation
> people won't use it.  Using MathML is currently quite the "magic incantation"
> that also requires a user to install fonts.  Most users won't do that.

I thought that that problem is going away since Windows Vista and the 
latest version of Microsoft Office include Cambria Math, Linux distros 
will package STIX when that's released, and Mac already had adequate 
fonts. Is that not true?

I also believe that in Firefox 3.5 you could put a free math font on 
your server and use CSS @font-face to instruct the browser to download 
and use the font.

Rob