These testimonials are in support of the W3C Press Release "W3C Integrates Math on the Web with MathML 3."
American Chemical Society |
American Mathematical Society |
Design Science, Inc. |
Elsevier |
Innovimax (English, Français) |
NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
MathML v3.0 is an important update to the venerable MathML v2.0, an XML-based specification for expressing equations. Since the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society has utilized MathML v2.0 for several years in the production of our journal content, we welcome the publishing-focused enhancements included in this version such as more control in specifying automatic line breaking and alignment behaviors. Additional enhancements regarding MathML’s ability to integrate into web and electronic media are also likely to be very well received by many publishers of scientific, technical, and mathematic content.
— Dan O’Brien, American Chemical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) welcomes the new W3C Recommendation MathML 3.0 and its MathML for CSS Profile. The AMS has supported the development of MathML for some years and is pleased to have the possibility of offering MathML 3.0 markup in its MathSciNet product through use of MathJax technology. We expect wider deployment of MathML 3.0 will facilitate communication of mathematics and science over the Web.
— Don McClure, Executive Director, American Mathematical Society
Design Science is a leading vendor of math and science communications tools, and MathML is important to much of what we do. Our motto is Equations Everywhere and Anywhere, and key to that -- from cut and paste interoperability to accessibility, from computation to high-quality typesetting -- are solid, mature software standards like MathML. New features in MathML 3 for accessibility will help us extend our industry leading MathPlayer accessibility software to lower grade levels, and the much enhanced facilities for line breaking will benefit customers of our MathFlow XML publishing solutions.
— Robert Miner, Vice President, Research and Development, Design Science, Inc.
As a leading scientific publisher Elsevier is committed to the broad dissemination of scientific output, and continues to help drive the development of open global standards for encoding mathematics in the digital age. From basic building blocks like the STIX fonts project, to active support of the W3C and MathML3, open standards of information exchange will help create, validate, share, disseminate and archive mathematical knowledge in a sustainable way. As such Elsevier welcomes this latest and impressive step towards unlocking the vast potential of mathematics on the web by further increasing the accessibility and the value of scientific output.
— David Clark, Senior Vice President, Physical Sciences, Elsevier
English: Innovimax is pleased together with the W3C and the Math Working Group to announce the MathML 3.0 Recommendation. Twelve years after the first Recommendation, the features and changes enables now better integration of Internationalization, especially for Arabic Mathematics. We are thrilled to foresee all the potential of this specification in the Web.
Français: Innovimax se félicite particulièrement du travail accompli par le W3C Math Working Group pour l'achèvement de la recommendation MathML 3.0. Douze années après la première recommendation, les modifications et ajouts apportés permettent desormais une meilleure intégration des l'internationalisation, en particulier dans le domaine des Mathématiques en Arabe. Nous sommes enthousiasmés par le potentiel que permettra cette spécification pour le Web.
— Mohamed Zergaoui, Innovimax
MathML has proven to be critically important to the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, an online reference work containing more than 900 displayed equations. MathML has allowed us to integrate mathematics into our web pages in a natural way that is backed by a community standard, and provides a pathway to a future semantic web of scientific and technical information.
— Ronald Boisvert, Information Technology Editor of DLMF
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