ASCIIMathML: a brilliant JavaScript/XML hack
Once in a while, you find something on the Web that makes you go “Wow!”. Ever since MathML came along, I’ve been fairly disappointed because it looked like it was designed to work only inside expensive commercial tools. ASCIIMathML proves I was wrong. You can write standard HTML files with some convenient mathematical notation in it, and a piece of JavaScript will dynamically convert it to MathML which displays fairly nicely in Firefox. However, I always seem to be missing some key fonts.
XML and JavaScript are a potent mix.
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[...] Karl Dubost from W3C gave a talk on XHTML (in French) at the last W3Quebec meeting. What’s interesting, beside the content, is the use of HTML Slidy (and not XHTML Slidy!) to mimick PowerPoint. I bet that if you mix it with the JavaScript MathML trick, you could prepare great scientific slides running nicely in Firefox. [...]
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