Burning Chrome

Great work!!!. I will be reading all site as soon as I can to make further comments.

Actually there a several screenshot that I cannot view using firefox 0.9.2. I think that the files got corrupted when you did the commit. These files are:

http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/templateBeforeUpdate.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/basicTemplates.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/alphadTemplates.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/templateAfterUpdate.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/applyTemplateOnce.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/applyTemplate3x.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/templateEditorIntro.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/templateEditorBeforeSearch.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/templateEditorAfterSearch.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/contentTemplate.png
http://abacus.mozdev.org/images/presentationTemplate.png

Very cool - a big step for the project. Not all the screenshots seemt to work yet, though.

Congrats! BTW, the link to the W3C project in the main page is wrong. Instead of www.w3.org/Amaya it should be http://www.w3.org/Amaya

Perhaps it would be nice if they linked to this project too!

I've tried it in MacOS X with Mozilla 1.7.2, and the following happens:

• The MathML Abacus icon appears in Composer's toolbar.


• When I click on it, the editor window that appears (the one in the screenshot named "mathmlEditorStart.png") doesn't show any of the menu bars, nor the red box for the expression. Additionaly, the window doesn't have any borders (title bar, resize corner, etc.) and it's a bit too narrow so that only the left half of the "OK" button is visible.


• The following messages appear in the JavaScript console:
  -----------------------------------------------
  Warning: Abacus MathML Editor should receive a language to use (xml:lang='en-US', lang='en' or for example)!
  Source File: chrome://abacus/content/math/editor.js
  Line: 1322
  -----------------------------------------------
  Warning: We need a way to notify the user that we've set a default language they may not want.
  Source File: chrome://abacus/content/math/editor.js
  Line: 1324
  -----------------------------------------------
  

I suspect that it doesn't show anything because the selected language got some weird value, which is probable since my locale is set to "es_ES", but I don't know what values is Abacus receiving.

(From Alex: Oh, that last bit explains a lot. The reason you're not seeing anything is that no one has written MathML templates for Abacus except me. It's for the same reason that you don't see Abacus in the Spanish language. No one's done localizations for that yet.

Did I mention this was an 0.1-ish release? 8) There's a lot of work to be done on the whole kit & kaboodle.

The Template Editor is designed to help you write your templates, though!)