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Everything I have found online shows rumours that WebKit development of MathML support is coming soon. Does anyone know where I might find an official statement of this work, and when (from an official source) this will happen? Thank you.

Jarvis
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  • You might try the iOS development documenation of WebKit: [http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/safari/index.action](http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/safari/index.action) – rckoenes Jan 26 '12 at 13:27

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I am an unofficial volunteer, but I've been working on the WebKit MathML implementation for the last couple of months. I just tested MathML in the released version of Safari on an iPad 2 and it's turned on. I assume this is also true on the iPhone, but not yet in Google Chrome or presumably the Android browser. There are still a lot of layout bugs even in basic MathML in WebKit, but I and perhaps others are working on them. I don't think you'll find any official statement anywhere from Apple or Google or WebKit (if you do, please let me know!). WebKit seems to be a classic democratic (anarchic?) open source project, albeit one that is supported by some of the world's largest companies, and that benefits or will benefit literally billion(s) of people. It's pretty cool to be contributing to it, I must say. For more info, you might check out:

If anyone wants to contribute e.g. by reporting some new MathML layout bugs, it'll help focus our (my) work and increase the speed with which MathML patches get reviewed and checked in to WebKit. As I say, it feels great to have a chance to help so many people - I recommend it.

Dave Barton
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  • I tested the epub 3+mathml version of this book http://lightandmatter.com/calc/ on someone else's ipad 2 a couple of days ago. I only observed one general problem, but it's a big one. Stretchy operators are not rendered properly; they're rendered with little ladder symbols. –  Jan 26 '12 at 22:14
  • Thanks. I found this one too via one of your links, that also shows current status of the project. https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/MathML – Jarvis Jan 27 '12 at 13:49
  • Great comments, thanks! The wiki link summarizes what's been implemented, though as I say there are still some bugs. Also I've passed on the missing font (I think) on iPad 2 comment to another coder, and I'll look at it myself also after finishing my current patches. – Dave Barton Jan 27 '12 at 19:03
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    Well - it seems there's some [official word](http://blog.chromium.org/2012/11/a-web-developers-guide-to-latest-chrome.html) from Google Chrome at last :) – YetAnotherUser Nov 08 '12 at 22:43