Safari 3.2: not ok

Bug filed upstream : https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24127

Webkit bug 24127 has been duplicated to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3251

Issue 9230 has been merged into this issue.

This is a bug for almost 4 years in webkit. Can't you, chromium guys, implement this?
Because I don't think they're really working on this @ webkit. And I think it's a
really needed feature in Chromium.

Reading the thread @ bugs.wekbit.org, we could do something like this: mathml to svg.
And SVG could be displayed correctly.

Thanks for reading!

I'm using Chromium to use Google Wave preview (it feels faster and more stable than 
with firefox). But I started using Google wave for Collaborate on Math stuff. There is 
nice robots there for rendering LaTeX as mathML. Too bad the MathML rendering is so 
poor on Chromium....

This is now enabled in WebKit, should be turned on in Chromium builds as well.

Considering this no longer is dependent on an external dependency, seeing WebKit enabled it by default, I'm removing the label and moving this back to untriaged.

The following thread on chromium-dev is relevant to this issue:

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/b926b2068277aa97/276d5c2345067fec?lnk=gst

Opera 11 is OK.

Well, to be honest, Opera's MathML implementation is quite broken and cannot handle diacritics properly.  It is unsuitable for real world applications (tried to use it for my class notes, for which IE/MathPlayer & Firefox worked fine)

Issue 84491 has been merged into this issue.

Given that Safari 5.1 now supports MathML, I believe we should look into implementing this. Allegedly one of the reasons it hasn't been already is that it has not had a security audit. Marked it for review.

@rschoen - If someone wants to take ownership of landing MathML then they can file a feature metabug and work through any changes needed to land it (including what I would anticipate to be a large number of security crashes). However, unless someone antes up for the work it's not going to happen on its own.

So this bug seems to be just about enabling MathML parsing from comment 9 onward, but for displaying MathML you might – depending on the platform targeted – also need to think about font support, i.e. about whether you will ship with the STIX/XITS fonts on e.g. Windows (BTW which are now included in OS X 10.7 because of Safari's MathML support I would guess).

Issue 115809 has been merged into this issue.

It's 2012 not 1999.

Chrome 20.0.1105.0 (Official Build 132547) dev fails the Mozilla MathML test (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.html)

I cannot believe this.

Google accepts 2 projects for the Google Summer of Code 2012 for improving MathML support in Firefox (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_MathML_Project)
but still does'nt implement MathML at all in their own Browser Chrome.

I explained on comment #17 what's preventing MathML from being enabled. Simply put, someone needs to take ownership of the feature and get it to a state where it's demonstrated stable and safe enough to ship.

Concerning comment #17, does the remark about potentially "a large number of security crashes" still have any validity whatsoever? Does Apple do that much less testing of the code they use than Google? Not to mention that the MathML code is out in open  for a year now.

Are you volunteering and do you have the necessary expertise to do the work? If not, I don't see that your comments are contributing anything useful at this stage. We have an obligation to our users to meet a minimum bar before enabling a feature. No amount of complaining on this bug is a substitute for meeting that obligation.

FYI, Dave Barton is working on Webkit's MathML implementation and is concentrating his effort on fixing the most important bugs that could prevent passing security review. People who are really interested in seeing this bug fixed should follow his work on Webkit's bugzilla and possibly help him.

about comment 24: the two MathML projects mentioned were just proposals from Mozilla. Finally one student was accepted (for a different MathML project).

Issue 61672 has been merged into this issue.

Marking as duplicate of newer Issue 152430