Comments on: Practical MathML

By: Paul Topping

Paul Topping — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:12:45 +0000

Thanks for mentioning our free MathPlayer plugin for IE. Just a small correction: it requires IE 6 or later. IE 5.5 is no longer supported due to all of its problems. This shouldn’t bother anyone anyway.

Also, we now have release MathPlayer 2.1 with IE 7 compatibility and a few other features, such as synchronized highlighting of the math while it is being spoken.

Paul Topping
Design Science, Inc.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:27:11 +0000

Thanks Paul, I’ve updated the article to reflect that correction.
Cheers,
Peter

By: Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:23:27 +0000

The above PHP script can be improved in a variety of ways.

1) Camino supports MathML now (it didn’t when that script was written). So there’s no need to special-case it; it’s just another Gecko-based browser.
2) If you take the trouble to convert (XHTML+MathML) named entities to numeric character references, then it is safe to send application/xhtml+xml to ALL browsers that say (in their ACCEPT header) that they accept it AND to IE+MathPlayer.

So here, for instance, are the mod_rewrite rules I use


RewriteRule ^$ index.shtml
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml+xml [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} W3C.*Validator|MathPlayer
RewriteRule .html$|.shtml$   - [T=application/xhtml+xml]

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:21:57 +0000

Jacques, thanks for the update on Camino, I’ve edited the article and the code so it’s treated like the other Gecko browsers.