Just a few moments ago, I noticed a post in mozilla.dev.tech.mathml for a WYSIWYG MathML editor. If you factor in tools like TinyMCE for HTML editing, and Mark Finkle's SVG RichDraw tool, you can't help but be amazed, as I am. (No word on the licensing behind the MathML tool; I've just asked in the newsgroup.)
Just to see efforts like this for individual languages impresses me greatly. Plus, since they work in web pages, there's no reason they can't work in chrome pages. Web pages operate under a lot more restrictions than chrome.
How nice it would be to integrate all of these into a common platform, so that you'd have WYSIWYG XHTML + MathML + SVG!
This is precisely the sort of thing I'm building Verbosio for: people who develop great tools for individual markup languages could drop them into Verbosio as extensions and have them working together. That's the vision behind my Verbosio work.
Where's WYSIWYG in Verbosio? A little ways off. I don't think true WYSIWYG will make Verbosio 0.1, although I'd very much want it; I simply have to concentrate on minimal functionality first. (I have other editing-what-you-see plans first.)
All the same, I'd love to start a community discussion between these individual projects and see what I can do to integrate these tools and help them.
My hat's off to all of you.
Posted by WeirdAl at April 5, 2007 10:30 PMAnother nice MathML editor, which exists for quite some time already, is http://mathcast.sourceforge.net/home.html
~Grauw
Posted by: Laurens Holst at April 7, 2007 4:51 AM