Comments: Safari Newsflash: XML Lives!

How about DataIslands?

Posted by Brendan at January 17, 2003 8:29 PM

Okay then. Is there a way to view an XML doc in a tree fashion (similar to IE for windows)? Or do you have to apply a stylesheet to see the tree?

Posted by Ron at January 18, 2003 5:33 AM

Is Safari also going to support XSL(T)?

Posted by Mike at January 18, 2003 9:40 PM

It is important for the online math community to see support of MathML (http://www.w3.org/Math/).

Posted by Daniel at January 19, 2003 7:09 AM

Use HTML DOM for the document. Don't use XML DOM.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#application-xhtml-xml
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/html.html#ID-5353782642

Posted by Garrett Smith at January 19, 2003 8:01 AM

I second Daniel's request for MathML. Working at a university keeps me in direct contact with Apple's new found market, scientific computing. Many of the mathematicians and astronomers use MathML, and consider it a significant tool in their work-flow.

Posted by Doug at January 19, 2003 9:04 AM

I know that it's not a full recommendation yet but how about XForms? When do you think?

Posted by jason at January 20, 2003 2:11 PM

As far as processing MIME types, it would be very nice to be able to choose what "safe" types are and provide user configurable processing of those types.

For instance, I often download PostScript files created with LaTeX+dvips for which I have a simple application which fixes a common bitmapped font problem (using a cli tool that is part of my LaTeX installation) and converts the file to PDF before opening it with the system PDF viewer (Acrobat Reader, in my case). My application is setup so that when I double-click on PostScript files in the Finder, the files are converted to PDF and opened. It would be real nice if I could tell Safari that "application/postscript" is safe and to use the system delegate to open it -- thus, when I click on a PostScript file link, the file will be downloaded, converted and opened in Acrobat Reader.

Also, I third the request for strong MathML support, especially when considering that the rendering core of Safari could eventually be the ubiquitous renderer in Mac OS X-- it would be fabulous to have a "math literate" computer interface! (but now I am just dreaming)

Posted by Alex at January 21, 2003 8:15 AM