[GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

[Seneca Cunningham]

> On Aug 17, 2020, at 17:27, Christopher Browne via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 17:15, Howard Gibson via talk <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>    I brought this up at our last meeting and we discussed it.  
> 
>    Officially, you can insert equations into your website using MathML.  Unfortunately, Google Chrome does not support this, so it does not work.  I uploaded my MathML page to my website, and you can try it out.  
> 
>    http://rev/~howard/hgibson2/MathML.html <http://rev/~howard/hgibson2/MathML.html>
> 
> A URL that seems to work better for those of us outside your network ;-) is this one: 
> http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/MathML.html <http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/MathML.html>
> 
> I'll note that the browsers I had handy were Firefox and Chrome; I concur with your comments on the handling of the quadratic equation.
> 
> Those results are not extraordinarily surprising.  The one I'd wonder about is Safari; I would assume it doesn't support it.

Safari handles those equations without any issue.  If you want to cause some Safari rendering errors, add a binomial coefficient.  Based off one of the links I put in the etherpad, Chrome used to support MathML.  It stopped after Google forked WebKit into Blink.

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