Subject: Re: XS: needed features? From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <Lassi.Tuura@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 18:48:24 +0200 |
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > quite. what would make more difference to CERN, the ability to mark > changed text, or the ability to display math properly? Currently LaTeX is still by far the most common tool used to produce math-intensive documentation here. When converting those documents for the web, most people use latex2html, which just converts the equations (and weird symbols in general) to images. Hence, I'd say the ability to mark changed text is more important. However, *if* there was a possiblity to display maths as real content, things might be different. I am not sufficiently informed to say how big an impact that would have. I still think that requiring maths in XML would help the scientific world a lot (and not just physics and maths -- others use complicated symbols too). Real proposals to create mark-up for math have been available for quite a while now, and even implemented in the Arena browser. Nevertheless, Netscape and MS haven't done anything to incorporate them into their browsers, at least as far as I know. It just doesn't seem to be very high on their priority list :-( I guess that it just doesn't make large enough percentage out of the overall user population. Cheers, //lat -- Lassi.Tuura@xxxxxxx There's no sunrise without a night DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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