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A lot of people don't seem to get the point of MathML. Well, suppose you have a blog, and you want to use math. If it's going to be consumed on the web, a javas
by dynm 5y ago
A lot of people don't seem to get the point of MathML. Well, suppose you have a blog, and you want to use math. If it's going to be consumed on the web, a javascript library probably works OK. But if people subscribe over RSS/atom? Or over email? As far as I can tell, nothing works. Your best bet is to try to figure out how to write your math using unicode, or (the horror) to render everything to bitmaped images.
Hopefully MathML will help with that. The most important thing is that MathML is limited enough in power that gmail et al. can support it without worrying about security / privacy. (Unlike, say, .svg images now.)
- leni536 5y agoI fail to see how MathML is inherently safer than SVG.
- dynm 5y agoI meant that as an aspiration: "I sure hope that MathML is designed/considered safer than SVG." Why exactly SVG is considered unsafe now, I'm not sure, but I understand that this is why gmail doesn't allow it. It seems like SVG can contain semi-arbitrary HTML and javascript? (I'd love to have a less-powerful but more trusted version of SVG, too.)