GeoSVG: An SVG Based Tool for Plane Geometry and Mathematics Education

Resources

Installation

• Firefox 1.0.7
• Firefox 1.5 Beta 2: Choose custom setup to install all the tools for developers.
• Seamonkey 1.0 Alpha

SVG

• W3C SVG Home Page
• SVG 1.1 Specification
• SVG WIKI
• SVG Open 2005
• Mozilla SVG Project
• Mozilla Developer Center on SVG
• SVG Example at Croczilla
• W3C's New SVG test suite at Croczilla
• SVG Authoring Guidelines
• SVG Namespaces Crash Course
• Guide to Deploying SVG with HTML
• Interdocument communcation
• Mozilla SVG Project DOM Interfaces Documentation at Croczilla
• I recommend two books: SVG Essentials, and SVG Unleashed. You can read the books online from Safari. You have to set your Web proxy server if you're off campus.

MathML

• Mozilla MathML Project
• A MathML editor for Mozilla
  The installation file mathmled4.xpi downloaded from the above page doesn't work. Please follow these steps to install it.
  
  1. Download this file mathmled.zip
  2. Extract the zip file to <mozilla-directory>/chrome/
  3. In the <mozilla-directory>/chrome/ directory, there should be a file named installed-chrome.txt. If there is no, create a blank new one. Add these two lines to the installed-chrome.txt:
     
     content,install,url,resource:/chrome/mathmled/content/
     locale,install,url,resource:/chrome/mathmled/locale/en-US/
     
     Don't miss the last slash "/".
  4. Depending on your Mozilla browser version, delete the file app-chrome.manifest or chrome.rdf in the <mozilla-directory>/chrome/ directory. It will be re-generated next time the browser starts.
  5. Now start your Mozilla browser. Check if the app-chrome.manifest or chrome.rdf is re-generated.
  6. Type in the browser chrome://mathmled/content/ to play with the MathML editor.

Mozilla Overview

• I recommend the book Rapid Application Development with Mozilla. There is a "download" link in the page. You can download the pdf version before buying it.
• Creating Applications with Mozilla from mozdev.org
• Cross referenced display of the Mozilla source code

XUL

• Mozilla XML User Interface Language (XUL)
• A very good tutorial on XUL including introduction to XBL, RDF, XPCOM
• XUL 1.0 specification
• XUL Programmer's Reference Manual
• XUL Application Tutorial
• XUL Developer Guide
• XUL Element Reference
• XUL Element Positioning

XBL

• XBL - Extensible Binding Language 1.0

RDF

• Introduction to the RDF Model

XPCOM

• XPCOM project
• XPCOM components and frozen interfaces reference: This is the Embedding API reference, but it tracks the currently frozen interfaces of XPCOM.
• XPCOM compoenent viewer: It hasn't been updated for a long time.

SeaMonkey

• SeaMonkey Homepage