On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2.1. MathML never saw much traction outside of Mozilla, despite having > been around for a decade. WebKit only got a very limited partial > implementation recently, and Google removed it from Blink. The fact that it > was just dropped from Blink says much about how little it's used: Google > wouldn't have disabled a feature that's needed to render web pages in the > real world. The Blink implementation was never good enough to render MathML pages well in the real world, whether there were any or not. It also had some pretty major brokenness in the way it was integrated into Blink, which made it difficult to enable safely. I would also say that one big difference between MathML and a hypothetical TeX-based format is that MathML has a DOM and it's not clear how to fit TeX into a DOM. That may not matter much for rendering, but it does if you want to support editing. One other thing: EPUB publishers are screaming for good math support for textbooks (and currently that means they want MathML). They're mostly Webkit-based, and maybe we don't care about them, but there you are. Rob -- q“qIqfq qyqoquq qlqoqvqeq qtqhqoqsqeq qwqhqoq qlqoqvqeq qyqoquq,q qwqhqaqtq qcqrqeqdqiqtq qiqsq qtqhqaqtq qtqoq qyqoquq?q qEqvqeqnq qsqiqnqnqeqrqsq qlqoqvqeq qtqhqoqsqeq qwqhqoq qlqoqvqeq qtqhqeqmq.q qAqnqdq qiqfq qyqoquq qdqoq qgqoqoqdq qtqoq qtqhqoqsqeq qwqhqoq qaqrqeq qgqoqoqdq qtqoq qyqoquq,q qwqhqaqtq qcqrqeqdqiqtq qiqsq qtqhqaqtq qtqoq qyqoquq?q qEqvqeqnq qsqiqnqnqeqrqsq qdqoq qtqhqaqtq.q" _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
