Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

Frédéric Wang escribió:
> 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


Yes, Wikipedia has a potential for boosting the use of MathML with its 
tons of equations. It is supposed to have experimental functionality to 
use MathML for formulas: you have to login with a personal account, and 
in your settings for Math select the option "MathML where possible 
(experimental)". However, I don't see any effect: A few simple formulas 
get converted to plain HTML, and most of them to PNG.

I think, there are libraries for converting LaTeX (the internal math 
representation in Wikipedia) to MathML. They should implement it and get 
rid of the rasterised PNGs, at least for users of Firefox :-)

[OT] I remember I also suggested Wikipedia to embed SVG drawings as such 
(they currently convert them to PNG for display), for SVG-enabled 
browsers, but they were reluctant as they considered SVG to be 
insufficiently or differently implemented in the various browsers.