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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by robin_reala on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:23AM (#21369281)
Chrome didn’t drop MathML, they dropped their horrible implementation. Currently Igalia are building a new Chromium MathML implentation: https://mathml.igalia.com/
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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by aplaice on Sunday October 27, 2019 @12:46PM (#21370817)
They dropped their implementation of MathML in 2013. In the six years since then, they didn't fix it or replace it with a better one.

I'm extremely excited by Igalia's work on MathML and glad that the Google Chrome team had given it their preliminary approval, but in the context of criticising Google for working on the "application web" and ignoring the "document web" (for scientists and others), it doesn't change anything[0]. Google is neither doing the work, nor funding it[1], and their contribution until now has mostly (solely?) been to be open about merging it.

[0] not that you explicitly said that it did...

[1] It's funded by the NISO and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by robin_reala on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:39PM (#21371589)
Yep, I’m not disagreeing with anything you’re saying here :)
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