Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/09/09 1:05 AM, Firemath wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Well, we have been supporting MathML for years longer than everyone else ---
> and that hasn't been free, belive me.

I know that, personally, I really appreciate that Mozilla has been supporting
MathML as it exists in the code base.  I think what you are seeing is that
many of us want more out of the implementation and that just maintaining
the current state without some forward movement is something we
all have opinions about.

With the current development of HTML5 going on, it would be really
great to see HTML5 progress in conjunction with SVG and MathML as
a fully supported triad of markup we can rely upon in Firefox and other
Mozilla derived products.

Maybe we should turn this discussion in a positive direction:

   1. What feature(s) of MathML 2 do you need that is not implemented?

   2. What's "broken" that you need fixed?

-- 
--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