Brain 2.0 http://illposed.wordpress.com Waiting for serious equation rendering... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:13:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/ba1cccdebfd77c95f026d5e95a7b88b4?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Brain 2.0 http://illposed.wordpress.com No MathML – what a pity… http://illposed.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/3/ http://illposed.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/3/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:42:34 +0000 hauke76 http://illposed.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/3/ ]]>

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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