[open-science] Fwd: Help get math turned back on in Chrome

[Carl Boettiger]

Peter, Neil,

Thanks for sharing; this is indeed sad news.

Um, the google-code link is not working for me. (500 error).
Is there a blog-post or such about this we could share the link to? (aside
from the archived thread,
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2013-February/002140.html)

Not directly related, but my (somewhat dated) experience with MathML was
that webkit rendering wasn't really satisfactory for anything beyond very
basic equations, so I've stuck to mathjax rendering meanwhile.  Obviously
there'd be some advantage to having my xhtml source-code in MathML instead,
but I've been reluctant to do this without adequate rendering.  Sorry for
the tangent and perhaps I could tap the expertise here for any thoughts on
this?

- Carl


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> This is the sort of thing where we cannot let the infrastructure of the
> browser be determined by the whim of corporations. Anything we can do?
>
> I have an impossible dream about the people owning the browser. It used to
> happen with lynx and mosaic. Can we buuild an open science browser?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Neil Soiffer <NeilS at dessci.com>
> Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:12 PM
> Subject: Help get math turned back on in Chrome
> To: "www-math at w3.org" <www-math at w3.org>
>
>
> Chrome 24 had MathML in it.  But they plan to turn it off in Chrome 25!!!
>
> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152430#c32
>
> says
>
>  Note that MathML has had to be turned off because the code is not
>> yet production ready. We hope to turn it on in some future release.
>> We plan to announce this in the Chrome 25 release notes.
>>
>
>
> This is because of a minor layout bug for which a fix has already been
> submitted.  Apparently the folks at google don't care about math much and
> just want to see it die -- the support that is in there was done by someone
> who volunteered his time for a year and finally had to go back to doing
> paid work.
>
> One easy step to show your support for math in Chrome is to go to the
> above link and click on the star in the above left and to get everyone else
> you know to do the same.  That says you care about this bug being fixed.
>
> A harder step is to find a way to get google to wake up to the reality
> that math is used in the classroom everyday and is one of the three "r"s
> (as the saying goes in the US). Not supporting it is a disservice to
> education around the world and to science, math, and engineering in
> general. So blog about Chrome's killing math support, tweet about, or
> create the next viral video about it.
>
> If you care about math support in browsers, do something to show you care!
>
>      Neil Soiffer
>
>
>
>
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Carl Boettiger
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