Talk:MathML

Maybe MathML and SVG could be interesting for the wiki : http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/instiki/show/Sandbox
 * Thanks, I had a look at it. The problem is that the Instiki software is different from MediaWiki and that I want to stick with MediaWiki because of the nice administrative features and the excellent Semantic Web extension.
 * MathML, however, is nothing new. Instiki converts LaTeX formulae (look at the source of that Sandbox page!) to MathML. MediaWiki converts it to PNG images (maximum compatibility), to HTML, or to MathML; you can control this under Preferences/Math.
 * Embedded SVG is very nice. There is such an extension for MediaWiki ; would you like me to install it? BTW, SVG is supported out of the box by MediaWiki in the sense that you can upload SVG images. For embedding them into pages, MediaWiki will automatically generate PNG images from them. --Clange 19:12, 2 August 2007 (CEST)


 * OK, I haven't seen this option for MathML ! But it seems it does not work for me ?
 * $$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$$
 * BTW, do you know a wiki that accepts MathML markup ? I find but it sends a wrong header...
 * MathML features on blog and wikis could be listed in the MathML page.


 * For SVG, I think it could be a good thing for graph or things like that, thought I have no particulary need for the moment...
 * Hmm, you're right. It doesn't work for me either. That is, when I check the option "output MathML", MediaWiki still generates PNG or HTML. I wanted to test it on Wikipedia, but it didn't work either. In the German Wikipedia, the check box was even labeled with "not implemented". So I guess it's indeed not been implemented :-( --Clange 19:28, 7 August 2007 (CEST)
 * OK. Anyway the doctype on wiki pages is "XHTML 1.0 Transitional", but to make MathML or/and SVG work it should be "XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1" or "XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0" (they are more strict than transitional) and moreover the header sent should contain "Content-Type:application/xhtml+xml" (not accepted by Internet Explorer). So I suppose there are currently too many constraints to implement these features in a wiki, but I hope people are working on it.
 * BTW, Fred, Texvc, the renderer that MediaWiki uses for formulae does support MathML output, but only in a limited way. And apparently this support is not reflected on the MediaWiki GUI. --Clange 18:07, 11 August 2007 (CEST)