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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 href="http://www.dessci.com/" target="_blank">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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<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>
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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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<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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