[Using Sakai] for equations in sakai course

[Matthew Jones]

MathML will be somewhat nice in HTML-5, thought it's basically only
available in Firefox and IE9 or older IE's with a plugin, though MathJax can
display LaTeX and MathML. [1] Only partial support exists in Webkit based
browsers [2].

The biggest problem with MathML is it is very difficult to edit the math.
You are almost entirely reliant on a wysiwyg of some sort.

For example typing creating something as simple as [image: gif.latex.gif] means
you have to enter:
<math>
        <mrow>
                <msqrt>
                        <msup>
                                <mtext>a</mtext>
                                <mtext>2</mtext>
                        </msup>
                        <mo>+</mo>
                        <msup>
                                <mtext>b</mtext>
                                <mtext>2</mtext>
                        </msup>
                </msqrt>
        </mrow>
</math>

In LaTex this is just "\sqrt{a^2+b^2}"

Some of the editors like "http://www.fmath.info/" are kinda cool though.

[1]
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/208588/html5_makes_math_easy.html
[2] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/MathML%20Status

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mark Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net>wrote:

> On 10/27/2010 1:44 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:
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>> Anyway, after Math, people will want Chemistry and Music too! We should
>> have some consideration for these as well. Mark Norton started the page on
>> this over 2 years ago. [1] ;)
>>
> Lots going on in HTML-5, as well.
>
> - Mark
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