Why I’m disabling MathML for now
In a previous post I described how I tweaked my WordPress installation to support the display of MathML markup, for displaying mathematical equations.
One of the steps involved changing the content-type from application/html to application/xhtml+xml. That step was necessary, or else Firefox would simply not render the MathML markup properly.
Unfortunately, application/xhtml+xml is simply not supported on a host of other browsers, including Internet Explorer. Which means that this blog became unreadable overnight to anyone coming to it with anything else than Firefox.
This is why I’m disabling direct MathML support on this blog. If you’re interested you can view the original blog post on my blog’s old server.
There are, however, alternative (and arguably simpler) ways to display mathematics on the web, such as MathJax, or jsMath (a Javascipt library used on the Maths Q&A site MathOverflow
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on June 11, 2010 at 1:43 pm
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Another solution for Mathematics on web using MathML is http://www.fMath.info/formula/exFrac.jsp
thank you
alex
on June 21, 2010 at 1:13 pm
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Thanks for the pointer, I’ll definitely give it a try!
on October 29, 2010 at 1:54 pm
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Hi,
MathML is the w3c standard for math on the web and the only way to exchange between formula editors, typesetting, office software and browsers. All but Internet explorer support it at least in recent versions, it is part of html5. So I do not really see an alternative but point Internet explorer users to a plug-in- loosing content by transforming formulae to images would be an expensive work-around.
Great blog!