MathML - the Quest !!!
b crowell really nails it here. Ben's Home Page
- The majority of users, who have IE with no plugin, should see some kind of graceful degradation.
- Firefox users should see the math displayed correctly.
- The tiny minority of users who have MathPlayer+IE should see the math displayed correctly.
Unfortunately, you just can't accomplish this by any reasonable technique. The technique I've ended up using for the web browser version of my own physics textbooks is to use mod_rewrite to serve mathml to Firefox 3+ users, and serve a version with bitmapped renderings of the equations to everyone else.
More to follow in next Post.
Glen
