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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=992053615-13062001>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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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> Alan Cooper
[mailto:] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:33 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>Does this mean that the MathPlayer will
be an exclusively Microsoft solution, or do other browsers support the
"behaviours" technology?
<P>Paul Topping wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <SPAN class=055171015-13062001><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>Paul,</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=055171015-13062001></SPAN><SPAN class=055171015-13062001><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>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.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=055171015-13062001></SPAN><SPAN class=055171015-13062001><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>Paul
Topping</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=055171015-13062001></SPAN><SPAN class=055171015-13062001><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>----------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></FONT></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>Paul
Topping
email: pault@dessci.com</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>
phone: 562-433-0685</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>Design Science,
Inc.
<A target=_blank
href="http://www.dessci.com/">http://www.dessci.com</A></FONT></FONT></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>"How Science
Communicates"</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, Equation Editor,
TeXaide</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>----------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></FONT></FONT>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=-1>-----Original Message-----</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>From:</B> Paul Libbrecht
[mailto:]</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>Sent:</B>
Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:19 AM</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=-1><B>To:</B> webmath@camel.math.ca</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>Subject:</B> Re: WebMath: ANN: Next
Generation of Web Math Products</FONT></FONT> <BR> </DIV>This means
no-one will ever hunt for the size problem...
<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>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>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>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>How semantic is the generated MathML from Maple ?
<P>Were there successful attempts to generate MathML content that could be
delivered to other math systems ?
<P>Paul <BR> <BR>
<P>On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Bob Mathews wrote:
<P>Maple 7 integrates WebEQ technology by Design Science. To read the
entire press release, see:
<P><U><FONT color=#006600><A
href="http://www.dessci.com/company/press/releases/june01.stm">http://www.dessci.com/company/press/releases/june01.stm</A></FONT></U>
<P>Bob
Mathews
email: bobm@dessci.com
<P>Director of
Training
phone: 830-990-9699
<P><U><FONT color=#1919ff><A
href="http://www.dessci.com">http://www.dessci.com</A></FONT></U>
<P>Design Science, Inc. -- "How Science Communicates"
<P>MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, Equation Editor, TeXaide
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<P>--
<BR>======================================================================
<BR>Alan Cooper (acooper@langara.bc.ca , <A
href="http://www.langara.bc.ca/~acooper">http://www.langara.bc.ca/~acooper</A>)
<BR>Dep't of Mathematics and Statistics (<A
href="http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats">http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats</A>)
<BR>Langara College (<A
href="http://www.langara.bc.ca">http://www.langara.bc.ca</A> ) <BR>100 W 49th
Ave. Vancouver BC <BR>Canada
V5Y2Z6 Tel(604)323-5676,Fax(604)323-5555
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