MathML for CSS Profile

I'm delighted to announce that the MathML for CSS profile has been published as a W3C Recommendation.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-mathml-for-css-20110607/

This had a dependency on CSS 2.1 which was also published today.

This completes the three REC-track documents produced by the MathML3-era Working Group, joining:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-MathML3-20101021/

and

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xml-entity-names-20100401/

The MathML for CSS profile (most of the technical work for which was done by George Chavchanidze of Opera) defines how a subset of MathML may be implemented using CSS. This is useful for two reasons: Firstly, it highlights possible places where CSS could be extended to improve its expressive power (so allowing a larger subset of MathML to be implemented) or secondly, it may be viewed directly as an implementation of a useful subset of MathML (and is similar to the CSS stylesheet for MathML which is used for MathML support in Opera). As usual, comments are welcome here or on www-math@w3.org list.

A MathML for CSS Profile 2nd PR

A MathML for CSS Profile Has today been edited in place to confirm that it has passed all the ballots and implementation requirements to proceed to full W3C Recommendation status.

The final hurdle is that it has a normative dependency on CSS 2.1 which is currently at Candidate Recommendation stage, so MathML for CSS is blocked at Proposed Recommendation stage until CSS 2.1 reaches Recommendation. Hopefully early next year.

There are apparently several W3C Working drafts similarly blocked by CSS 2.1 (which has been at Candidate Recommendation stage for over a year). Hopefully the CSS Working Group will get the remaining issues resolved and testing reports done this year!

MathML3 PR

The W3C today published MathML3 and the MathML for CSS Profile as proposed recommendations.

PR is almost the final hurdle, and assuming none of the W3C members object at this stage, then we should be on course to reach Recommendation status in September.

As always, comments are welcome on www-math@w3.org, or via this blog.

Candidate Recommendations

I'm pleased to be able to announce that the Candidate Recommendation drafts of MathML3 and the MathML for CSS profile are available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-MathML3-20091215/ and http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-mathml-for-css-20091215/.

It is during this Candidate Recommendation phase that implementation work needs to begin in earnest as we need to show via the test suite that all the features are implemented by two implementations.

MathML CSS Profile

The W3C has just published the Last Call draft of A MathML for CSS profile.

2 down 1 to go!

New MathML Drafts

I'm pleased to announce another draft of both MathML 3 and the MathML profile for CSS.

"Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-MathML3-20090604/

"A MathML for CSS profile"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mathml-for-css-20090604/

Comments to www-math please.

Three new W3C Working Drafts

Today the W3C published three new working drafts

MathML3 Several new features worked on this time, more Content MathML improvements, more information on layouts for elementary mathematics (long division, etc.), and the first draft of a Relax NG Schema. Also, we have re-instated the XHTML+MathML version of the spec.

A MathML for CSS profile I'm down as co-editor of this, but all the main credit should go to George Chavchanidze of Opera Software, who's continuing his long standing work of getting mathematical rendering using pure CSS declarations.

XML Entity definitions for Characters The latest iteration of the the definitions of Characters. This was formerly part of the MathML spec (Chapter 6) but had been separated out and extended to include all the ISO entity sets, and the HTML Entity sets. I still hope that eventually this can be a joint ISO/W3C publication, updating ISO/IEC TR 9773-13. We'll see...

MathML 3 .0 and MathML for CSS

Two new working drafts issued today: MathML 3.0 and A MathML for CSS profile. These drafts are the first public working drafts by the current incarnation of the Math Working group. No doubt I will be posting more about those later, comments of course welcome either here or (better) on the www-math list.