No MathML – what a pity…

January 18, 2008

Well, this is my first and currently last post. I was looking for a blog supporting MathML and found out that unfortunately wordpress.com does not – at least not yet… I was somehow misrouted by a plugin offered while overseeing the fact that wordpress.com does not support plugins for security reasons.

I am aware of the fact that wordpress.com offers support for $\LaTeX$ which allows me and other users to convert $\LaTeX$ code into pictures but already the following formula (2D Gaussian derivative) is hard to read unless being displayed with the proper size flag (e.g. &s=1)

$\frac{\partial^2 G(x, y,\sigma)}{\partial^2 x} = \left(-1+\frac{x^2}{\sigma^4}\right)\frac{e^{-\frac{\left(x^2+y^2\right)}{2\sigma^2}}}{2\pi\sigma^2}$

So in my humblest opinion the main disadvantage of the currently available solution is its rendering which does not scale properly when a user is performing any client side zooming.

It is clear that web-pages containing MathML must be served as application/xhtml+xml, i.e. pages must adhere well-formed XML but at the end of the day being required to be a bit more peaky on my syntax is not too much asked for considering the benefit of clean and beautiful equation renderings.

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