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Mathematical formulae in new dimension

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:39:54 PM

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One should be crazy to expect mobile browsers to be able to render mathematical formulae, especially when most of desktop browsers fail miserably on any kind of mathematical markup. But is seems that things look completely differently when you look at them from a higher dimension.

Upcoming new version of Opera Mini turned out to be capable of handling complex inline layouts, including CSS formatted math formulae. It managed to handle quite sophisticated stress tests much better then some of its desktop friends do.

MathML story continuesMathML in Opera and Safari

Comments

Simon Houstonshoust Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:48:37 PM

Does this mean MathML support in Kestrel?

Edit: Oops my mistake.

George ChavchanidzeWhite Lynx Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:03:11 AM

Nope. There might be some CSS3 stuff that simplifies formatting of mathematical expressions in Kesterel, but no native MathML support so far.

However rendering MathML by applying XSLT or through UserJS should be relatively easy as from formatting point of view rendering engine has basic functionality needed to handle MathML layout schemata, but since this functionality is exposed through CSS that is not particularly keen in styling MathML-like markup where order of elements in markup does not necessarily match their inflow order, Kesterel (well, in this case its Opera Mini that uses the same engine on server side) can't handle MathML natively.

George ChavchanidzeWhite Lynx Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:36:36 AM

Yep, MathML is enabled in latest Kestrel weekly build. I am sorry for wrong prediction. In June picture was different.

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