image upload feauture

[Vassilis]

It would be a good idea of creating a place where we could store our equation images and use them later in a web forum.

My proposals are:
a) Create a button on FireMath that store the image of the equation we wrote, in a web file server and return us the link to the image.

or

b) Create a button on FireMath that will call your web FireMath equation translation server and translate online our equation

:::this is an example:::

<math display="block" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mrow>
<mi>a</mi>
<msup>
<mi>x</mi>
<mn>2</mn>
</msup>
<mo>+</mo>
<mi>&beta;</mi>
<mi>x</mi>
<mo>+</mo>
<mi>&gamma;</mi>
<mo>=</mo>
<mn>0</mn>
</mrow>
</math>


and return a link to the image of the equation.


I say that because many forums are not support image upload and your firefox plug-in would be an excellent tool to do this job.

[firemath]

Sounds like an interesting idea. Nevertheless, it raises many questions. Who provides the server (reliably)? Who defines the interface between Firemath and the server (securely)? Which security measures have to be taken? How many forums accept images inlined within the text with the images on remote servers?

Alternatively, we can try to convince forum software authors to write modules, which accept MathML.

To be realistic, my desire to add other features to Firemath will take too much time, such that we likely have to wait quite some time before your proposal can be realized.

[Vassilis]