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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I thought you might be interested in this disturbing development.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> noreply+feedproxy@google.com [mailto:noreply+feedproxy@google.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Design Science News<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> ron@altformatsolutions.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Recent posts from Design Science News<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='margin-left:24.0pt;margin-right:24.0pt' id=emailbody><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="99%" valign=top style='width:99.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="http://news.dessci.com/" title="(http://news.dessci.com/)"><span style='font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#888888;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none'>Recent posts from Design Science News</span></a> <o:p></o:p></h1></td><td width="1%" style='width:1.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://news.dessci.com/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id=feedimage src="http://www.dessci.com/misc/images/dsilogo.gif" alt="Link to Design Science News"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 id=itemcontentlist><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><a name=1></a><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DesignScienceNews/~3/6nqx-VpbPgg/microsoft-cripples-display-math-ie10-11.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000066;text-decoration:none'>Microsoft cripples the display of math in IE10 & 11</span></b></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#555555'>Posted: 09 Oct 2013 09:25 AM PDT<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://designscience.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f0d27e28834019affe1def0970c-pi"><b><span style='color:#000066;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://designscience.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f0d27e28834019affe1def0970c-800wi" alt=IeNoMathml></span></b></a>For the past 12 years, IE users have benefited from our free <a href="http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/"><b><span style='color:#000066;text-decoration:none'>MathPlayer plugin</span></b></a> to display and speak math on the web. MathPlayer has been downloaded over a million times and billions of expressions have been rendered by it on the web. Additionally, tens of million expressions have been spoken allowing people with disabilities from dyslexia to blindness to get access to math. However, MathPlayer cannot be made to work with IE 10 or IE11 until Microsoft decides it is worth their attention. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Until they address the problems, it means an end to accessible math in IE -- IE goes from being the best solution for math accessibility to having no math accessibility. It also means that websites that deliver math need to use the JavaScript-based <a href="http://www.mathjax.org"><b><span style='color:#000066;text-decoration:none'>MathJax</span></b></a> solution if the math is going to render in IE. MathJax is a great solution and works with MathPlayer now, but without MathPlayer, the display is many times slower than if MathPlayer is used. So with every page containing math that you view, you are paying a price for the lack of MathML support in IE.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='line-height:140%' id="Allblogs%3ASupportforIE10andMathPlayerworkorder-WhyMathPlayerdoesn%27tworkinIE10andIE11"><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Why MathPlayer doesn't work in IE10 and IE11<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>We wish we could make MathPlayer work with IE10 and IE11, but we can't. A half a year ago when we released MathPlayer 3, IE10 simply had too many bugs for us to be able to say MathPlayer worked with it. A recent update to IE10 fixed a number of bugs so that MathPlayer now works tantalizingly well <em><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>except</span></em> that math inside of a span or table causes IE10 to crash. The crash is in IE10, not MathPlayer -- earlier versions of IE work well with the same MathPlayer code. Unfortunately, these two cases occur quite often, so MathPlayer isn't usable in IE10. Microsoft is aware of the bug but indicated that fixing the problem was not a priority for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>There is a different reason why we can't make MathPlayer work with IE11: Microsoft disabled the plug-in technology MathPlayer uses to display math in IE called a <em><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>binary behavior</span></em>. Behaviors allow third party developers to extend the capabilities of the browser. It is a powerful idea, but unfortunately <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/bg182625%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#legacyAPIs"><b><span style='color:#000066;text-decoration:none'>Microsoft disabled support for binary behaviors</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='line-height:140%' id="Allblogs%3ASupportforIE10andMathPlayerworkorder-Whatcanyoudo%3F"><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>What can you do?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>If math and accessible math on the web is important to you, make some noise! Write a blog post, share this story with your friends and colleagues, contact Microsoft directly and get your friends and colleagues to do so also. If they get enough direct feedback from customers – not other software developers, they will hopefully give this matter the attention it deserves. You can report Internet Explorer issues directly to them at <a href="http://connect.microsoft.com/IE"><b><span style='color:#000066;text-decoration:none'>http://connect.microsoft.com/IE</span></b></a>. If you can contact their Technical Support Staff by telephone your report will carry even more weight. You can contact Microsoft Technical Support at (800) 936-5700.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>In the meantime, if you need math accessibility or don't want to wait extra time for pages to display math, don't upgrade to IE10 or IE11. That also means not upgrading to Windows 8.x because Windows 8.x only supports IE10 and IE11.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>With your help, we hope that IE returns to being the best browser for viewing math.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:140%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:none;border-top:solid #999999 1.0pt' id=footer><tr><td style='border:none;padding:3.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.2in;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'>You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="http://news.dessci.com/">Design Science News</a> <br>To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=KM1-Jdm5-BzUoMspPXVlHhCPyRE">unsubscribe now</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:3.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.2in;margin-left:0in;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Email delivery powered by Google<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='border:none;padding:3.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:4.5pt;margin-bottom:.2in;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>