Why is math(s) difficult to render in a browser. Microsoft Equation Editor has no difficulty rendering math(s) ?
The main problem is that existing browsers don’t provide an adequate interface for third-party software used to render such as plugins, applets or ActiveX controls. It is hoped this will be solved as a result on work on the next generation of HTML, DOM and CSS. In addition, with due respect to a successful piece of software, it cannot be said that Equation Editor provides math presentation of the highest quality or gives widely portable results. As an example of the kinds of problems faced: The rendering code for an embedded piece of mathematics would like to use a font size and family that matches the font used for the rest of the document’s text. The plugin would like to control the vertical positioning for a math expression relative to the baseline of the text line in which the math is placed. The plugin would like to negotiate the height and width for the math object according to the space needed and not have this fixed at authoring time. At present, because of the lack of a way of
