Have you considered building a NPAPI plugin? If there is a MIME type associated with MathML text, then you could ship a NPAPI plugin that is registered to handle and render MathML. What is NPAPI missing that you would need?
Obviously, this doesn't handle the case of embedded MathML content, but given that MathML is such a niche element of the web, I bet authors would be willing to adapt to the constraint of a separate document for MathML provided they could get good support across all browsers. Doing some searching, it is interesting to see the hacks people employ to coerce Firefox to render MathML from within a text/html document... Regards, -Darin On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:48 PM, PaulTopping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, but they don't have a plugin mechanism capable of supporting it. > This was the reason for my post. For business reasons, we do not want > to make MathPlayer open source. Our MathML rendering engine and math- > to-speech software are core parts of our business. We have approached > the Safari community years ago with the proposal that they make, with > our help, an extension mechanism powerful enough to support MathPlayer > but they are evidently holding out for someone to create an open > source MathML renderer for them or a MathML-to-SVG convertor. > > We have no problem with the built-in, open source approach but with > complicated standards like MathML and SVG, having more options, both > open and closed source, benefits the community. For example, it would > allow us to work with screen reader vendors (who also charge for their > s/w) to move the technology forward more rapidly. > > Paul > > On Dec 1, 2:38 pm, Evan Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The right place to put MathML support, I think, would be in WebKit. > > That way Safari and other browsers benefit too. > > > > The WebKit project has an open bug indicating they would like support: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3251 > > They also have a working patch for some preliminary support, it seems: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15302 > > > > You may want to bring this up on the webkit-dev mailing list. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:09 PM, PaulTopping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > We make MathPlayer (www.dessci.com/mathplayer), a plugin for Internet > > > Explorer that enables it to display MathML and works with screen > > > readers used by the blind to speak mathematics. While Mozilla/Firefox > > > has built-in support for MathML, Webkit and Chromium do not have such > > > support. It would be nice if the Chromium extension mechanism was > > > powerful enough to support a MathPlayer plugin. We at Design Science > > > would be happy to help make that happen.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
