Re: Attn: Tom Dickey Re: lynx-dev superscript bugs

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 12:23p -0700 08/10/2002, Steve White didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

> I personally detest using Gif's to represent formulae.  It's ugly, sloppy,
> and amounts to a loss of information.
>
> I have found that a lot of math can be represented very well in HTML,
> so long as browsers adhere to published standards.

When I started working at SLAC, my then-boss was interested in Ping's 
MINSE which used GIFs yet kept the original formula in the ALT 
attribute so it wouldn't be lost. My next boss there was enamored of 
IBM's techexplorer; we had a brief love affair with the browser 
plug-in (I didn't like IBM's use of <embed> and javascript, so I came 
up with some <object> code for Lynx compatibility), but the plug-in 
turned out to be very buggy render-wise (perhaps it just didn't like 
<object>). The general sentiment now is that we should probably just 
have raw TeX for formulae in document abstracts, and then if someone 
really wants to render it, they can pass it off to another app or 
something.
Sample: <http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-8544>


-boo



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