On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Charles Matthews<[email protected]> wrote: > I have been looking around to see what effect this might have on > rendering of mathematics. Is that potentially good, but only if everyone > agrees to usethe right browsers?
It's easier to embed MathML (and SVG) into HTML 5 than into XHTML, yes -- with XHTML you need to serve as XML before it works in any browser, AFAIK. And we don't want to serve as XML due to fatal errors on malformedness. Currently I think only Firefox 3.6 nightlies support embedded MathML, and only if you set html5.enable to true in about:config, but sooner or later widespread support is likely. There's a MathML output option in the math preferences. I don't know if it actually works. But it could be made to, undoubtedly, without too much trouble, if we have a safe and reliable LaTeX -> MathML converter. Obviously it couldn't be the default until we get a lot more uptake of MathML. It would be neat if we could get it working well and then use some kind of sniffing to determine whether to use MathML or PNG, but that would be tricky. I'd like to emphasize again, though, that these benefits are *long-term*. There will be *no* immediate user-visible difference between XHTML 1.0 and HTML 5 for users of web browsers, or nearly all bot operators. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
