∃ numeric niceties ∀²
Thursday, 27. September 2007, 19:46:00
In early 2006, a My Opera user created a highly impressive user javascript to enable Opera to support a core range of MathML. His work had not gone unnoticed by Opera, and it appears at some point Opera hired him. In just over a year he has gone from smart browser user to working on the W3C working group for Opera implementing a standards-based CSS mechanism for MathML rendering:
http://www.w3.org/TR/mathml-for-css/
And that is actually implemented in Kestrel:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/can-kestrels-do-math-mathml-support-in/
The benefits of this method is that it uses already existing standards which modern browsers are all working towards; a browser vendor simply needs to insure their CSS support is excellent and have some way to trigger local CSS AFAIK. Mathematicians: exponentially rejoice!
{trivia: I'm no mathematician, but the naming conventions for ∃ means "There exists" and ∀ means "for all" — so my title really reads "There exists numeric niceties for all(squared)}
http://www.w3.org/TR/mathml-for-css/
And that is actually implemented in Kestrel:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/can-kestrels-do-math-mathml-support-in/
The benefits of this method is that it uses already existing standards which modern browsers are all working towards; a browser vendor simply needs to insure their CSS support is excellent and have some way to trigger local CSS AFAIK. Mathematicians: exponentially rejoice!
{trivia: I'm no mathematician, but the naming conventions for ∃ means "There exists" and ∀ means "for all" — so my title really reads "There exists numeric niceties for all(squared)}
