new version of MathDox Formula Editor
I just released a new version of the MathDox Formula Editor. There are two main improvements over the previous version. The first is Microsoft Internet Explorer (v7) support. Unfortunately IE is still the browser with the largest market share, so I couldn't just ignore it. Debugging my code in IE was a rather painful experience compared to developing with Mozilla Firefox and the Firebug addon, but after two weeks of debugging it finally works!
The second improvement is the direct result of seeing Olga Caprotti trying to include the Formula Editor javascript file on the mathdox.org server from a webpage on a different server; this didn't work in the previous version because of security restrictions on AJAX calls. I managed to work around this in the new version, so now you no longer need to put the Formula Editor files on your own webserver, but you can reference the ones on the mathdox.org server. Thanks Olga!
More information about this release and a demo of the Formula Editor are available at http://jem-thematic.net/node/331 or http://mathdox.org/formulaeditor.
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Very nice! I should try this
Very nice!
I should try this right away and embed an openmath object here:
I am not sure this is what should appear. I tried making the OMSTR "Hello World!" but did not show - now the above is using and OMV. What am I doing wrong Mark?
Hi Olga, the portal software
Hi Olga,
the portal software automatically inserts <br/>'s and <p/>'s into the posts and comments. Unfortunately it also inserts these into the OpenMath. The parser of the Formula Editor doesn't understand this, and therefore the formula doesn't show. A solution for this is to write the textarea and openmath tags all on one line, so that no <br/> or <p/>'s are generated.