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class=055171015-13062001>Paul,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=055171015-13062001>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=055171015-13062001>Paul
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size=2>----------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Paul
Topping
email:
pault@dessci.com <BR>
phone:
562-433-0685 <BR>Design
Science,
Inc. <A
target=_blank href="http://www.dessci.com/">http://www.dessci.com</A><BR>"How
Science Communicates"<BR>MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, Equation Editor,
TeXaide<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------<BR> </FONT>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Paul Libbrecht
[mailto:] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:19 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
webmath@camel.math.ca<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: WebMath: ANN: Next Generation of
Web Math Products<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P>This means no-one will ever hunt for the size problem... </P><BR>
<P>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... </P><BR>
<P>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. </P><BR>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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).
</P><BR>
<P>How semantic is the generated MathML from Maple ? </P>
<P>Were there successful attempts to generate MathML content that could be
delivered to other math systems ? </P><BR>
<P>Paul </P><BR><BR><BR>
<P>On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Bob Mathews wrote: </P><BR>
<P>Maple 7 integrates WebEQ technology by Design Science. To read the entire
press release, see: </P><BR>
<P><U><FONT
color=#006600>http://www.dessci.com/company/press/releases/june01.stm
</FONT></U></P><BR>
<P>Bob
Mathews
email: bobm@dessci.com </P>
<P>Director of
Training
phone: 830-990-9699 </P>
<P><U><FONT color=#1919ff>http://www.dessci.com</FONT></U><U></U> </P>
<P>Design Science, Inc. -- "How Science Communicates" </P>
<P>MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, Equation Editor, TeXaide
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