Mathematics in Web Pages
hor Pee LIM
lcp2@np.ac.sg
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Singapore
Abstract
HTML is the important core behind internet browsers in describing how text and graphics are displayed, and multimedia tasks are performed. However, the two most popular internet browsers from Netscape and Microsoft, are lacking good built-in HTML tags and mathematical character sets for displaying math notations such as symbols, expressions and graphs in WYSIWYG environment. As a result, additional efforts must be included to achieve its aim. The concepts and some of the techniques of how to handle such notations in web pages will be described in this paper; including the advantages and disadvantages associated with the individual techniques.
In addition, the notations included in web pages can be in static or dynamic form depending on the nature of the techniques. So, the concepts and techniques of how to include dynamic math notations in web pages will also be discussed in this paper.
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