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Firefox Is the First Browser To Pass the MathML Acid2 Test

Posted by timothy on from the assembling-data-please-wait dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Frédéric Wang, an engineer at the MathJax project, reports that the latest nightly build of Firefox now passes the MathML Acid2 test. Screenshots in his post show a comparison with the latest nightly Chrome Canary, and it's not pretty. He writes 'Google developers forked Webkit and decided to remove from Blink all the code (including MathML) on which they don't plan to work in the short term.'"

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  1. Math symbols are so archaic so who gives a F by TrollstonButtersbean · · Score: 1, Troll
    Mathematics is one of those fields that could use some ISO standards.

    There are critics of C++ that say the language is just pieces and parts hacked together. Even if that is true, mathematics takes the undisputed crown of bizarre hacked together symbols.

    The symbols used in mathematics are unintelligible, inconsistent, don't even use a standard language character set and cannot be represented in a programming language.

    These mathematical symbols either need to be modernized to come to a standardization or die.

    The real answer is that they will die. And they should.