[webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove ENABLE(MATHML)

[Konstantin Tokarev]

23.10.2017, 18:43, "Frédéric WANG" <fred.wang at free.fr>:
> Hi,
>
> There have been some discussions recently on
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177744 regarding the relevance
> of the compile-time flag for MathML. Discussing with Olivier during the
> Web Engines Hackfest, it seems he only had disabled MathML in his
> project because he thought it would reduce binary size. However, he was
> not really sure this actually had a significant impact. AFAIK, the only
> dependencies needed for MathML are the font libraries but they are
> already used for text layout. The implementation is only a few
> element/rendering files plus some changes here and there.
>
> I'm wondering if other people use the --no-mathml build option and
> believe they really need it? If not, I'm propose to remove this
> compile-time flag.
>
> As a comparison, the flag for SVG was removed in
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127991 ; Mozilla also removed
> compile time option for MathML and SVG a long time ago (
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b8664f450508 for the former).

There is a big difference between SVG and MathML: the first one is entirely self-
contained, while (AFAIU) MathML requires presence of math fonts on the target
system for correct rendering (i.e. native MathML will look much worse than image
fallback that is usually available).

Imagine embedded system (e.g. of set-top box kind) which has no math fonts on
the board. Will always-on MathML be progression or regression there?

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Konstantin