Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

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

	Nice collection of formulae. Wikipedia is certainly one of the main 
resource for mathematics on the Web but unfortunately is still using PNG 
images... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Blahtex

> 
> 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.

	I've just gave a try to your extension. It's certainly useful to 
quickly insert mathematical symbols and write simple presentation 
MathML. However It's not easy to generate a complex recursive structure 
(it often says "Operation not permitted on empty objects!"). I also feel 
difficult to move across the tree structure and select fragments of the 
formula. It lacks a parsing for simple expression such that "a+b=2" and 
copy&paste feature of MathML fragments.
	I hope one day I can hack mozilla/source/editor/ to add the editing 
features of Amaya (including the recent SVG editor BTW) so that XUL 
applications like yours (maybe Thunderbird?) can rely on a user-friendly 
interface...