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Authoring Web Pages with MathML for Cross-browser Display

Authoring Web Pages with MathML for Cross-browser Display. Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. Browser capability. MathML can be displayed in: IE 5.5+ with MathPlayer (Windows) IE6/MP2 recommended. Browser capability. MathML can be displayed in:

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Authoring Web Pages with MathML for Cross-browser Display

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  1. Authoring Web Pages with MathML for Cross-browser Display Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc.

  2. Browser capability • MathML can be displayed in: • IE 5.5+ with MathPlayer (Windows) • IE6/MP2 recommended

  3. Browser capability • MathML can be displayed in: • IE 5.5+ with MathPlayer (Windows) • Netscape 7+, Mozilla 0.9+ and Firefox. • Current: 7.2, 1.7.5, & 1.0, respectively

  4. Browser capability • MathML can be displayed in: • IE 5.5+ with MathPlayer (Windows) • Netscape 7+, Mozilla 0.9+ and Firefox. • Triggering MathML rendering in browsers requires special declarations in the page.

  5. Triggering MathML • DOCTYPEs & MIME types • Namespaces • Object Tags and Processing Instructions • In the interest of time, we’ll not go into the specifics of these here. • I do have some examples though… • The good news is that you don’t have to remember all this minutiae!

  6. Differences between browsers • Remember all those differences? • That’s all taken care of automagically by MathPlayer 2.0. • If you construct the page with the right DOCTYPE, processing instruction(s), and namespace declarations, • the page displays natively in NS/M, and • MP 2 transforms it for display in IE 6. • The previous example is available as a template from the Design Science web site.

  7. MathType as an authoring tool • Two primary approaches… • Word + MathType à MathPage • HTML editor + MathType à XHTML + MathML • The MathPage approach… • Start with a [saved] Word document. • Click the Export to MathPage icon. • Choose the options & click OK. • Like this…

  8. MathType as an authoring tool • Two primary approaches… • Word + MathType à MathPage • HTML editor + MathType à XHTML + MathML • The MathPage approach… • The “brute force” approach… • It’s best to start with a template. • Use MathType to author the equations. • Choose the “MathML 2.0 (namespace attr)” translator. • Copy the equation and paste it into the code.

  9. MathType as an authoring tool • Two primary approaches… • Word + MathType à MathPage • HTML editor + MathType à XHTML + MathML • The MathPage approach… • The “brute force” approach… • In both cases, it’s important to save the document with a .xht or .xml extension. • MathPage does this by default when you choose the XHTML + MathML option.

  10. WebEQ as an authoring tool • No automatic methods here. • WebEQ gives you control: • Type of markup • Type of character encoding • Entity names (e.g., α) • Numerical references (e.g., α) • UTF-8 (e.g., α)

  11. WebEQ as an authoring tool • No automatic methods here. • WebEQ gives you control: • Type of markup • Type of character encoding • Choice of namespace declaration or prefix <math xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'> <mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>y</mi> </math>

  12. WebEQ as an authoring tool • No automatic methods here. • WebEQ gives you control: • Type of markup • Type of character encoding • Choice of namespace declaration or prefix <m:math> <m:mi>x</m:mi><m:mo>+</m:mo><m:mi>y</m:mi> </m:math>

  13. WebEQ as an authoring tool • No automatic methods here. • WebEQ gives you control: • Type of markup • Type of character encoding • Choice of namespace declaration or prefix • Copy MathPlayer or Mozilla declaration

  14. Sing it up • MathPlayer 2.0 contains new support for XHTML + MathML docs. • Triggered by a DOCTYPE declaration that mentions MathML. • Transforms a doc written for Netscape/ Mozilla into one that will display in IE 6.

  15. Sing it up • MathPlayer 2.0 contains new support for XHTML + MathML docs. • MathType and WebEQ for authoring • MathType • Word + MathType = MathPage • Also can use MathType with your favorite HTML editor to create XHTML + MathML docs

  16. Sing it up • MathPlayer 2.0 contains new support for XHTML + MathML docs. • MathType and WebEQ for authoring • MathType • WebEQ • Use with your favorite HTML editor. • Gives control over type of markup, character encoding, and namespace specification. • Copy declarations to clipboard.

  17. Sing it up • MathPlayer 2.0 contains new support for XHTML + MathML docs. • MathType and WebEQ for authoring • MathType • WebEQ • Questions?

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