Math

I was experimenting with the new MathML, Markup Language for Displaying Equations in your browser.

There are a lot of different ways, apparently, of displaying equations. Most of them are JavaScript libraries^{[3] [4]} that have been written.

I'm opting for "a standard", described at [1].

Thank heavens that it is possible to use MathML (3.0) without having to use html+xml and other requirements like in MathML 2.0. ^[2]

Unfortunately, it's support in browsers is still sorely lacking, for example Long Division is one of the new things in MathML, and it is either not well supported, or I am doing something seriously wrong.

Examples

The Quadratic Formula

$$x=\frac{-b\pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$$

Long Division

$$\mathrm{٣}\mathrm{\#x0664;٣٥٫٣}\mathrm{١٣٠٦}\mathrm{١٢}\mathrm{١٠}\mathrm{٩}\mathrm{١٦}\mathrm{١٥}\mathrm{١٫٠}\mathrm{٩}\mathrm{١}$$

Well, the long division example shows in my browser as utter junk. I hope someone else has more luck in viewing. Let me know. The examples in [5] also show non-working long division.

Browsers

Math	MSIE 9	Chrome 17	FF10	FF 8	FF 6	Opera 11
Equations	X	X	O	O	O	X
Long division	X	X	X	X	X	X

[1] MathML 3.0

http://www.w3.org/Math/

[2] MathML 3.0 Spec

http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML3/

[3] Math Jax

http://www.mathjax.org/

[4] Html5MathML

http://html5mathml.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test1.html

"left/\right"

a notation that is commonly used in Netherlands for Long Division^[2]

MathML, Firefox, and Firemath

http://lwn.net/Articles/440313/

[5] MathML 3.0 Spec Test Suite

http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/build/mathml3/frameset-full.xhtml

An introduction to MathML

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-mathml3/

Blogging Mathematics

http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2011/11/blogging-mathematics.html

Mozilla MathML Project

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_MathML_Project

Firefox Mathml Demo

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/

Firemath - Editor - Plugin for Firefox

http://www.firemath.info/