Math
You may be interested in the results of my experiments with displaying mathematics in web pages. If you have not already installed math fonts, you will need to do that. The Mozilla development team provides the necessary fonts and installation instructions for both Windows and Unix/Linux .
I tested these examples with Internet Explorer 6/7 and FireFox 2/3. With techExplorer, math can look very nice on the web. The examples containing MathML formatted with W3C Math XSL do not usually look as good, depending on your local fonts, your monitor, etc.
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A gallery of interesting surfaces in 3-space. All browsers, no plugin or special fonts are required. These examples use LaTeX equations converted to bitmaps with dvi2bitmap. |
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Fourier Theorem formatted with techExplorer. Requires the techexplorer browser plugin. |
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Fundamental Theorem of Calculus formatted with techExplorer. Requires the techexplorer browser plugin. |
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Fourier Theorem formatted with W3C Math XSL. MathML, generic XML wrapper, formatted with W3C Math XSL. |
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A proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus formatted with W3C Math XSL. MathML, generic XML wrapper, formatted with W3C Math XSL. |
How to best display mathematics on the web is discussed on the www-math@w3.org mailing list, and the Mozilla development team provides some documentation at: Mozilla and MathML. Displaying mathematics on the web is more difficult than displaying text or images. Some say the problem is not yet solved, which may be supported by the fact that the number of plug-ins and MathML editors for displaying mathematics in web pages continues to grow. The W3C lists descriptions for many MathML editors.