[GTALUG] MathML Support on the Internet

[Don Tai]

This does not render properly using Tor, which is surprising, as Tor is
based on Firefox

Chromium also does not render properly.

http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/MathML.html

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 17:47, Seneca Cunningham via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

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> On Aug 17, 2020, at 17:27, Christopher Browne via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
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> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 17:15, Howard Gibson via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
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>>    I brought this up at our last meeting and we discussed it.
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>>    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.
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>>    http://rev/~howard/hgibson2/MathML.html
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> A URL that seems to work better for those of us outside your network ;-)
> is this one:
> http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson/MathML.html
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> 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.
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> Those results are not extraordinarily surprising.  The one I'd wonder
> about is Safari; I would assume it doesn't support it.
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> 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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