WebMath: ANN: Next Generation of Web Math Products

[Paul Topping]

Yes, it is exclusively an Internet Explorer 5.5 and later solution. As far
as I know, behaviors will only work in the Windows version of IE. However,
if Microsoft gets broken up by the Feds, anything is possible.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cooper [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:33 AM
To: webmath at camel.math.ca
Subject: Re: WebMath: ANN: Next Generation of Web Math Products


Does this mean that the MathPlayer will be an exclusively Microsoft
solution, or do other browsers support the "behaviours" technology? 

Paul Topping wrote: 


 Paul,The plugins that Microsoft refers to are not so-called "Netscape
plugins" or Java applets that do suffer from the "size problem". They use an
entirely different technology Microsoft calls "behaviors" and does not
suffer the size problem. My company, Design Science, is working on such a
plugin. We call it MathPlayer and have already demonstrated early versions
of it. Using the behavior mechanism, our MathPlayer software becomes a very
closely integrated part of Internet Explorer.Paul
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Paul Topping                     email: pault at dessci.com 
                                 phone: 562-433-0685 
Design Science, Inc.             http://www.dessci.com
<http://www.dessci.com/>  
"How Science Communicates" 
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, Equation Editor, TeXaide 
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul Libbrecht [mailto:] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:19 AM 
To: webmath at camel.math.ca 
Subject: Re: WebMath: ANN: Next Generation of Web Math Products 
 
This means no-one will ever hunt for the size problem... 

For your information, the size problem is the need to compute the size of a
plugin or applet when you prepare the HTML page which is often before
knowing anything like the user's font size or window size... 


When you read the readiness statement of Microsoft about MathML it just
says... they're happy there are plugins and they have no intent of providing
support for MathML. 


But MathML display without real embedding (i.e. requiring plugins and size
of plugins) is a despair at many levels: fixed font sizes is unavoidable, no
dynamically changing content size, and it forces folks who generate MathML
and HTML from other sources to compute the real size (which real ?) of the
MathML object before making the HTML. The latter task is almost equivalent
to drawing a picture of the formula, a heavyweight task. 


So for the servlet maker in me, this is pretty much a sad story as it will
mean Maple will probably never ever support any kind of real richer content
encoding (MathML is only good for first level math, as everyone knows). 


How semantic is the generated MathML from Maple ? 


Were there successful attempts to generate MathML content that could be
delivered to other math systems ? 


Paul 
  
  


On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Bob Mathews wrote: 


Maple 7 integrates WebEQ technology by Design Science. To read the entire
press release, see: 


http://www.dessci.com/company/press/releases/june01.stm
<http://www.dessci.com/company/press/releases/june01.stm>  


Bob Mathews                      email: bobm at dessci.com 


Director of Training             phone:    830-990-9699 


http://www.dessci.com <http://www.dessci.com>  


Design Science, Inc. -- "How Science Communicates" 


MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, Equation Editor, TeXaide 
 

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