[GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

[Nicholas Krause]

On 8/17/20 5:27 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> A URL that seems to work better for those of us outside your network ;-) 
> is this one:
> 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.
> 
> There is an interesting list of browser support for MathML.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML
> 
> Apparently, at one time Opera *did* support it.  The set of other 
> browsers that do have support are largely Mozilla derivatives.  (e.g. - 
> ones like Camino, Galeon, Netscape (which was where Mozilla came from)).
> 
> The one other interesting one (in being "not like the others") is Amaya. 
> https://www.w3.org/Amaya/    I'm quite surprised that they had a release 
> as recently as 2012; I hadn't seen that one in YEARS!!! :-)
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I've managed to get in rendering in Chromium but not Chrome on version 
84 which is the lastest chromium for Ubuntu. Thanks for mentioning
it through as its a pain to write certain math in a web browser.
The only nit is it seems that the Tex versions render better for
complex equations in terms of being similar to an actual textbook:
https://mdn.mozillademos.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/MathML_Torture_Test$samples/MathML_Torture_Test?revision=1506691

If your trying to make it readable you may want to use something
that can render it in Tex like the mentioned MathJax if I recall
correctly.

Cheers,
Nick
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