[FRIAM] One more from the feeling awesome and inspired dept

[Russell Standish]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:59:02AM -0600, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> Going back over my weby-web basics...I seriusly don't recall when WebyWebs
> got to having good support for SVG and PostScripts. That is so awesome.  Is
> that new to HTML5. Udacity sugests including them with Canvas something
> about compatability and fluidity/responsitveness.
> 
> Either way that rocks rocks as a option.

Yes SVG and Canvas are HTML5 features that are very nifty. Canvas has
an excellent Javascript API, comparable, though not identical, to the
Cairo graphics library for C/C++.

A big shame is that MathML seems to have died. It is only supported in
Gecko-based browsers like Firefox, which has rapidly diminishing
market share. So we still have to embed images to represent
mathematics (poorly) like it was 1993.

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