Re: Mozilla mathml project to be interred

On 16/09/09 10:27 AM, Alvaro wrote:
> 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.

It would be great if someone found out what their specific issues are, 
and why their MathML option isn't working!

Rob