[Aimmath-developers] browser detection warnings etc

[Manolis M. <ma...@ma...>]

Greg proposed to have some way of warning students about their browser and
the math display.

I propose the following solution. Instead of the index.html page create an
index.jsp page that can detect the browser and we can do several things
about that.

Along these lines have a look at this page

http://82.41.200.217:8088/AIM/index.jsp

(I don't have a static IP but the last few months it's being like that so
hopefully it will work)

at the bottom of the screen there is a formula that will appear using
unicode or symbol font according to your browser. We can then add a link to
a page that describes problems if they appear. In a similar way we can bring
a pop-up that says about the IE bug with 2^(e^2) although I have a feeling
that this is a tth bug. Look how the html code looks for this:

<table align="center"><tr><td nowrap="nowrap" align="center">
2<sup>(</sup>e<sup>i</sup>)</td></tr></table>
</td></tr></table>

This is wrong the /sup for the first parenthesis should be after it closes !
(not to mention that it shouldn't have been done with sups but tables but
anyway ..this is how tth works. I am working in a much more elaborate
solution that we can probably use in AIM but this is not ready yet (it
invloves MathML for Mozilla and XSLTs with stylesheets for IE) and I 'll
wait for Gustav's moodle-MathML solutions to see how all these can be used
together.

Manolis