drhyde hates software: Every browser ever and MathML

• From: David Cantrell
  Date: 10:36 on 21 Nov 2003
  Subject: Every browser ever and MathML
  
  Over the weekend, I wrote a perl implementation of the serial
  correlation co-efficient.  As part of the documentation, I want to point
  people at a nice rendering of the mathemagical formula, rather than just
  embedding a dodgy ASCII representation in the POD.
  
  MathML to the rescue, or so I thought.
  
  Except that it doesn't work in any browser I had access to except IE.
  Which, of course, sucks for other reasons.
  
  
  

• From: Philip Newton
  Date: 10:50 on 21 Nov 2003
  Subject: Re: Every browser ever and MathML
  
  On 21 Nov 2003 at 10:36, David Cantrell wrote:
  
  > Over the weekend, I wrote a perl implementation of the serial
  > correlation co-efficient.  As part of the documentation, I want to point
  > people at a nice rendering of the mathemagical formula, rather than just
  > embedding a dodgy ASCII representation in the POD.
  
  Why not simply embed a LaTeX representation of the formula? Surely 
  everyone can read LaTeX mathematical notation!
  
  Cheers,
  Philip
  
  

• From: Phil!Gregory
  Date: 16:25 on 21 Nov 2003
  Subject: Re: Every browser ever and MathML
  
  * David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> [2003-11-21 10:36 +0000]:
  > As part of the documentation, I want to point people at a nice rendering
  > of the mathemagical formula, rather than just embedding a dodgy ASCII
  > representation in the POD.
  
  Embed a slightly-less-dodgy representation in Unicode; it's got the
  characters for it.  Oh, wait.  Then it would only work for the five people
  that are using programs with Unicode support.
  
  So many standards to choose from...
  
  
  

• From: peter (Peter da Silva)
  Date: 18:19 on 21 Nov 2003
  Subject: Re: Every browser ever and MathML
  
  > Embed a slightly-less-dodgy representation in Unicode; it's got the
  > characters for it.  Oh, wait.  Then it would only work for the five people
  > that are using programs with Unicode support.
  > 
  > So many standards to choose from...
  
  Shockwave Flash!
  
  
  

• From: Mark Fowler
  Date: 16:38 on 21 Nov 2003
  Subject: Re: Every browser ever and MathML
  
  On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
  
  > MathML to the rescue, or so I thought.
  
  Not that I'm by any means demeaning your hate (for you have suffered
  enough to create hate, even if everything suddenly starts working now)
  but do you have a URL for your mathml?
  
  Mark.
  
  
  

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