I am an educator struggling to incorporate mathematics in my online tutorials and mathematical games etc. I cannot use MathJax: It is asynchronous, and my code, which requires generating HTML and typeset mathematical formulas on the fly, would cease to function under MathJax unless I was to discard years of work and start all over again restructuring all my code to accommodate asynchronous math typesetting. Instead, I have been forced to write my own (very inferior) synchronous Tex to HTML converter for the MathML-illiterate browsers. For Firefox, I just use TeX to MathML and get perfectly good and pleasing typeset formulas synchronously.
A lot of people are claiming that the existence of MathJax makes MathML unnecessary. However, no mention is made of the important fact that MathJax is asynchronous, so that it cannot be used in place of MathML in dynamic pages without fundamental restructuring of the code. As things stand, Firefox is the only browser that admits native, synchronous mathematical typesetting. Worse, there is nothing even remotely comparable (and synchronous) for other browsers (Safari, for instance, claims to support MathML but the support is marginal and far from satisfactory). _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
