Math Entities and Real Browsers
Math entities as defined for use with HTML and real browsers don't
always work well together. I took a quick survey on the Doc-SIG in
2001, and am presenting the results here instead of letting the
collected data rot in a text file in my working directory.
Of particular interest at the time were the entities
± (for the "plus or minus" sign, usually
typeset as a little plus sign hovering over a little minus sign), and
∞ (the "infinity" sign; typeset as a
lazy-eight).
Browser |
Version |
O/S |
± |
∞ |
Linux |
Mozilla |
0.9, 0.9.1, 1.1 |
Linux |
ok |
ok |
Galleon |
1.2.6 |
Linux |
ok |
ok |
Navigator |
4.76, 4.77 |
Linux |
ok |
no! |
Opera |
5.0 |
Linux |
ok |
no! |
Opera |
6.03 |
Linux |
ok |
ok |
Amaya |
4.3.2 |
Linux |
ok |
ok |
Konqueror |
1.9.8, 2.2.1 |
Linux |
ok |
no! |
StarOffice |
5.2 |
Linux |
ok |
no! |
gnome-help |
0.4 |
Linux |
ok |
no! |
Lynx |
2.8.4rel.1 |
Linux |
ok |
displayed "infty" |
Links |
0.92 |
Linux |
displayed "+-" |
no! |
elinks |
0.3.0 |
Linux |
displayed "+-" |
displayed "infty" |
w3m |
0.3.1 |
Linux |
ok |
no! |
Dillo |
0.6.6 |
Linux |
ok |
no! |
Windows |
Internet Explorer |
5.5 |
Windows 98SE |
ok |
ok |
Internet Explorer |
6.0 preview |
Windows 2000 |
ok |
ok |
Mozilla |
0.9 |
Windows 2000 |
ok |
ok |
Mozilla Firefox |
0.8 |
Windows 2000 |
ok |
ok |
Navigator |
6.0 |
Windows 2000 |
ok |
ok |
Opera |
5.11 |
Windows 2000 |
ok |
no! |
Opera |
6.05 |
Windows XP |
ok |
ok |
Opera |
7.11 |
Windows XP |
ok |
ok |
Other |
Internet Explorer |
5.0 |
Mac OS |
ok |
ok |
Navigator |
4.72 |
Mac OS |
ok |
no! |
Lynx |
2.8.2 |
SunOS |
no! |
displayed "infty" |
Lynx |
2.8.3 |
BSD |
no! |
displayed "infty" |
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