I don't mean to diminish the importance of print -- I'm old enough that I *occasionally *print things out. However, the situation now is that neither display nor print of MathML works natively in Chromium. In turning on MathML display, 99.99% (or more?) people will be happy to have fast display of math; some small number of people won’t be happy when they try to print it out.
For that group and the publishers that put out material that tests whether MathML is available in the browser, this would be a regression. It would be interesting to know if any sites sniff for MathML support, or whether they simply look at the browser and decide based on their knowledge of support. I know of at least one site that does the latter and so they wouldn’t suffer a regression. Maybe all the sites do this because it is easy and reliable? Even if there is no regression, please don't put printing math on the back burner in terms of priorities. Benjamin mentioned Wikipedia. I can’t speak for what Wikipedia would do, but as long as they know that printing is broken in Chromium, any decision to turn on direct MathML rendering is their call, not Chromium’s. I suspect given their concern that Wikipedia renders properly almost everywhere, it will be a long time before they make a switch. Right now, despite Firefox’s long support for MathML, they still use SVG with hidden MathML on it. On the supposition that there are some sites that sniff for MathML, I think Benjamin’s suggestions are good. I don’t know how feasible it is to put up a dialog stating that printing math is not currently supported in Chromium, but doing that with some suggested workarounds would I think be a viable alternative until print is supported. One workaround would be to suggest they download an extension (that would need to be written) that loads MathJax into the page in question when clicked. Another suggestion could be to read the page with Firefox ;-). I’m sure there are many more clever people on this list than I am who might have other suggestions for workarounds. My suggestion is to follow the somewhat worn out but still very true trope: "don't let perfect be the enemy of the good". People have been waiting years and years to get math to display natively in Chromium and now it is ready to happen. Please try to find a simple stopgap and get this long awaited feature turned on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/e06bdd92-6787-4443-be87-50a11b898166n%40chromium.org.
