Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

On Aug 24, 1:02 am, 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.

MathML is becoming more and more popular. For examples see
http://dlmf.nist.gov/
http://www.firemath.info/

It would be nice if Mozilla would not only follow the mainstream (add
video support etc.) but feel responsible of supporting science
(minorities) as well. In the end many of the technologies used within
Firefox came out of science. So it would be only fair to give some
dividend back.