[webkit-dev] Attaching Additional Semantics to Markup

[Brady Eidson]

Someone kindly pointed out to me off-list that you - Alex - are the  
one working out of those bugs.

My apologies for not noticing this!  It's late, and I need sleep.

I'm more curious about your original motivations now - if MathML  
support is in the engine, couldnt accessibility roles also be worked  
on that would expose it to *all* screen readers, instead of one  
designed specifically to be some sort of WebKit "add on"?

~Brady

On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Brady Eidson wrote:

> Implementing MathML in the engine has been getting some traction  
> lately:
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28982
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29158
>
> Would native MathML support along with accessibility roles fulfill  
> your needs?
>
> If so, I'd suggest you direct your energies towards that effort!
>
> ~Brady
>
>
> On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Alex Milowski wrote:
>
>> I'm curious to see if there is someway an "plugin" or "extension"  
>> can be
>> added to a WebKit-based browser to add additional semantics for  
>> certain
>> content without going over to the "browser host" side of things?
>>
>> For example, I'd like users to be able to install an "add on" that  
>> augments
>> the browser and "reads" MathML to the user using the native TTS  
>> engine on the
>> platform.  This isn't a plugin in the traditional sense as WebCore is
>> doing the actual rendering of the content.
>>
>> I've looked at Chrome extensions but that seems to be at a higher  
>> level.  What
>> I want to do is add semantics associated with a certain kind of  
>> markup.  Think
>> of it as a "speak Math" service.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> -- 
>> --Alex Milowski
>> "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the  
>> paucity of the
>> inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
>> considered."
>>
>> Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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