netscape, mathml (and maxima perhaps)



An extra $0.02: I just tried this on Mac OS X (10.2.3), with a handful 
of browsers.

The results look identical in all (as if they were all using the same 
rendering engine):
   Safari (1.0/Beta)
   Netscape (7.01)
   Internet Exploder (5.2) - this generally blows up when I go to the 
URL, but
      when it works, it matches the others
   Navigator (0.6; A Mozilla derivative)
   Opera (6.0)

Each expression appears in a blue-bordered box (the first with thicker 
lines).

The first expression shows "xt, .....so", where the ellipsis represents 
the math expressions, correctly displayed as I read the XML.  Most of 
the "some text" strings are thus not shown.

The second expression is as you describe (exponent below and to the 
right of the horizontal bar).  It is the same in all browsers, 
including Netscape 7.01.

Regards,

Justin

On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 07:54 US/Pacific, Richard Fateman wrote:

> this works on my netscape 7.0
> as well as Microsoft's internet explorer 6.0,
>
> ......
>> For MathML display in Mozilla, you need a fairly
>> recent version -- >=0.9.9 I think.  Can your
>> version display the MathML test page at:
>>   http://www.w3c.org/Math/XSL/pmathml2.xml
>
>
>
> The exact display of the page is kind of strange. The
> second example is
>
> (sqrt(a+b))^27   and as displayed in the "approved"
> image rendering it is somewhat ambiguous and looks almost
> like
>   sqrt(a+b^27).
>
> The 27 is BELOW and to the right of the horizontal bar on the sqrt.
>
> The display in netscape (for example) has the 27 slightly
> above and to the right of the horizontal bar.
>
> So I would say that netscape does a better job than whatever was
> used by the www.w3c.org/Math people.
>
> RJF
>
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