As an occasional contributor to view source, I think it would be nice to remove the MathML support from m-c like you are proposing, as it definitely increased the maintenance burden when we reworked view source into a tab a while ago, and my assumption is the usage of MathML view source is relatively low (though I currently have no data to back that up).
Looking at the add-on, it seems to miss one feature: Currently in m-c, you can select a portion of a MathML expression, choose "View Selection Source", and see the MathML source for the selection. If that's added to your add-on, I believe you'd have feature parity with the existing MathML view source support. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365626 to remove MathML view source from m-c. - Ryan On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Frédéric Wang <fred.w...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 30/04/2016 à 12:25, Henri Sivonen a écrit : > > We ship data tables for converting from Unicode to HTML entities. > > These tables obviously take space. (They are not optimized for space > > usage, either.) As far as I can tell, these tables are not used at all > > in Fennec. In desktop Firefox, these data tables are used only for the > > MathML View Source feature. > > > > Additionally, a subset of the tables is used by some XPCOM-based > > extensions, but those extensions seem to be obsolete or abandoned or > > don't seem to be using the feature for a very good reason. > > > > These data tables are not exposed to the Web Platform. > > > > In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048191 I proposed > > removing this for mobile only, but how about we just remove this > > altogether in order to make both Fennec and desktop Firefox smaller? > > > > Hi, > > I'm resurrecting this old thread, just to say that there is now a > WebExtension implementing the "MathML view source" feature (using better > syntax highlighting and handling the invisible spaces too): > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mathml-view-source/ > > So I'm proposing to remove that feature from the core mozilla source. > The only concern I have is for Thunderbird/Seamonkey as it is not > clear yet what will be the future regarding WebExtensions. > > Any opinions? > > -- > Frédéric Wang > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
