[om] Netscape and MathML

Fred Meyer 3 f3meyer at texoma.net
Tue Oct 12 04:37:17 CEST 1999


As someone new to "OpenMath", I would like to know what the differences exist
between MathML and OpenMath? These are not clear in the discussions that I have
seen so far. Is there a FAQ or other document that treats this issue?

Fred

Paul Libbrecht wrote:

> Not knowing anything about MathML, may I ask if lots of folks around have
> done (or still do) lots of bug reporting for Netscape's support for MathML.
> It seems a pretty good idea, definitely, I'm just hoping things get really
> better than, for example, CSS support in NS4. The bugzilla stories running
> these days definitely seem to say it is the good time to do so...
>
> Paul
>
> >
> >Nonetheless, MS Word exports MathML (via Mathtype), Mathematica will
> >import, evaluate and export MathML, and shortly, Netscape will display
> >MathML.  And on these facts, I rest my defense of MathML as a
> >contribution to the world methematical community, in spite of whatever
> >theoretical short comings it may have.
> >
>
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