[WikiToLearn Tech] Ubuntu fonts bug

[Cristian Baldi]

I don't think it is a good idea to drop MathML support.

It is a new HTML5 standard and has very interesting features in the
"accessibility" and "usability" aspect of the browser.

In the future MathML should be the standard for the math in the browser and
SVG just a fallback.

We have to find a temporary workaround for this (the CSS font thing
suggested by Gianluca maybe, how big is the font file?) and at the same
time ask upstream (Ubuntu? Firefox?) to fix the problem.

Cristian

2016-03-25 13:31 GMT+01:00 Dario Mapelli <mapelli.dario at gmail.com>:

> MathML looks very nice!
> I think that an Ubuntu bug, that we all hope will be solved in the next
> LTS should not
> force us to drop MathML support..
>
> 2016-03-25 13:05 GMT+01:00 Gianluca Rigoletti <
> gianluca.rigoletti at gmail.com>:
>
>> 2016-03-25 12:53 GMT+01:00 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org>:
>> > On 25 March 2016 at 12:40, Gianluca Rigoletti
>> > <gianluca.rigoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> What are your thoughts about solving the issue?
>> >>> On my side I can:
>> >>
>> >> - Change the font family (but users need to be other amth fonts
>> >> installed, so it doesn't make sense)
>> >> - Write a guide on how to install the new Latin Modern font (it should
>> >> be writte for every kind of distro that has this problem)
>> >> - Force to download a font family with css (it may be slow if cache is
>> >> not stored).
>> >>
>> >> Sorry but I made the mistake to submit the mail before completing it :)
>> >
>> > So... it's an ubuntu bug, with a specific version of a font.
>> > What about disabling mathml for that specific ubuntu version? Or
>> > disabling MathML entirely? Would we drop support for some ancient
>> > browser (but is there a browser with mathml and no svg support)? What
>> > are the advantages of MathML compared to SVG rendering?
>>
>> Yes, I forgot to mention this. I'm not really sure about the
>> advantages of MathML over sv, except that it has a semantic markup in
>> the page.
>>
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>> Gianluca
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