Re: [Aimmath-developers] browser detection warnings etc

[Greg G. <gr...@ma...>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Manolis Mavrikis wrote:
> 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

Sounds excellent ... I haven't looked into the java server pages stuff
... if it can do all that we want that's great.

> 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. 

No, it's a definite deficiency of IE 5, nothing to do with tth.

> ... Look how the html code looks for this:
> ...
> 2<sup>(</sup>e<sup>i</sup>) ...

What was your (La)TeX for this? ... did you remember to enclose the
bracketed term in {} ... this is what I got for: $2^{(e^i)}$ 

2<sup>(e<sup>i</sup>)</sup>

Just in case, I checked if that changed when enclosed in \[ \] instead
of $ $. Of course if you have a very old version of tth, it is possible
it may have had that bug. I uses version 3.30 above ... and the current
version bundled with AiM is 3.40.
 
  Regards,
  Greg