WebMath: Fwd: Coming up: MathML working on the Mac

[June Lester]

This was posted to the Mozilla MathML list by Roger B. Sidje.

June

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>
>If you quickly want a summary, folks wisdom said that a picture speaks
>more than a thousand words... so here is a screenshot that shows that
>the Mac (OS 8.x to OS 10.x -- a.k.a. OS X in roman numeral) is now
>capable of displaying MathML beautifully as in other platforms:
>screenshot: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=92737
>
>But not all the patches have been checked in yet, and current builds
>are not yet in full parity. Wait until the patches on bugs 154007,
>159243, and 107146 get checked in. Mozilla's drivers had earlier
>approved the enabling of MathML by default on the Mac, but that was
>mostly intended to allow sufficient baking time to all the bits & pieces
>as they get gradually checked in.
>
>It has taken a very loooong time to finally get MathML support on
>the Mac in parity with the other platforms. Kudos to Rob Schofield --
>schofield at wolfram.com (a.k.a. robschofield at mac.com). On assignment
>from Wolfram Research, Inc (WRI) -- maker of Mathematica, Rob has been
>liaising with me throughout this month to do what it takes to fill
>the platform-specific gaps that were hampering the Mac, namely:
>
>bug 74821 - Implement GetBoundingMetrics() on the Mac
>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74821
>
>bug 107146 - math fonts (ucvmath) not working on the Mac
>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107146
>
>Once all the bits & pieces are checked in, MathML will therefore be
>alive & well on the three major Mozilla platforms (Windows, Unix, Mac).
>Gone will be the disturbing hassle of having to sniff whether or not
>a particular platform or build has MathML. It is anticipated that
>distributors will (eventually) share the fruits of this effort with
>end-users. In particular, the enabling of MathML in Netscape 7 has
>motivated this concrete follow-up from WRI (boycott Galeon if they
>keep --disable-mathml).
>
>It was during lively discussions at the MathML Conference 2002
>in Chicago that the drive to fill the missing APIs for the Mac
>crystallized. I will therefore give another word of thanks to
>Stephen Watt of the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra
>(http://www.orcca.on.ca) who sponsored my trip over there.
>---
>RBS
>
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