TIL there’s a .mml file extension for standalone MathML files (like there’s .svg for SVG, you know), and only Firefox supports MML rendering! Chrome shows it as plain text. Safari doesn’t even bother with that. Naturally, I filed feature requests (Safari, Chrome), but I’m not holding my breath: it’s MathML, after all.

Starting from Firefox 131, released yesterday, text fragments are now cross-browser, aka Baseline (newly available). You can also style the highlighted content with the ::target-text pseudo-element. I’m still getting over the #:~:text= thing, but it might be a good moment to start using it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/131#:~:text=Text%20fragments%20are%20now%20supported

Remember* that annoying browser behavior when they copy text in uppercase, although it’s only styled like that with text-transform? Yes, the one that goes against the spec. Apparently, Chrome 127 shipped the fix in July! Now, only Safari does that 🤨

It only took me half an hour to figure out how to find a specific branch base position here to download an old Chromium version from here and test it. Oh, and also xattr -cr /Applications/Chromium.app to be able to run it 🙄

* If you don’t, here’s an updated article

Last week, I successfully broke free from the vendor-locked and rather limited Apple smart home ecosystem and jumped straight into the rabbit hole of Home Assistant, running on a VM inside of my NAS with Zigbee and Bluetooth dongles sticking out of it. If you know what the hell I’m talking about, give me a sad like and share some of your favorite Home Assistant tricks and resources 🤓

Yesterday, I gave a talk about MathML, and I heard that some people thought “ML” stood for “machine learning.” “Math Machine Learning” even makes some sense. To their disappointment, I was talking about markup language instead.

It got me thinking… With all the hype around AI, maybe next time I pitch an HTML talk, I should throw in “Hypertext Machine Learning” somewhere in the description, just to improve my odds 🤔