Until recently, the only way to render mathematics in a web browser was to insert a picture. Now, a dialect of XML, called MathML, exists that allows mathematics to be displayed directly in a web page. The latest version of Netscape Navigator has MathML built in to it and a plug-in is available for Internet Explorer. But, if an author wants to go beyond the simple rendering of a mathematical formula and display its graph, then more graphical processing is necessary. Another dialect of XML, namely Scalable Vector Graphics, is emerging as the de-facto industry standard for doing web graphics. We show in this paper that it is also the most appropriate format for displaying graphical mathematical information on a web page and we discuss the features that make it the ideal companion for MathML.
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