I'm writing a page with lots of complex math formulas and decided to use mimeTeX to display them to my visitors. In firefox the page works ok but on safari the images created by the script are wrong.
I cannot reproduce this with shipping Safari or TOT on Windows XP, Tiger or Leopard.
I see a difference between "Bad" and "Good" images with a local debug build of WebKit r28516 with Safari 3.0.4 (523.12) on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165). Since the URL is not properly encoded in the HTML source, I'm guessing WebKit (or CFNetwork) is not properly encoding the string of characters sent to the server (or encoding them differently than Firefox).
MSIE 7 on Windows XP SP2 behaves the same way as Safari on Tiger does.
Here is the GET request from Firefox 2.0.0.9: GET /mimetex/G(%5Cvec%7Bk%7D,t-t')%20=%20i%5Clim_%7B%5Ceta%5Crightarrow%200%5E+%7D%5Cint_%7B-%5Cinfty%7D%5E%7B+%5Cinfty%7D%5Cfrac%7Bd%5Comega%7D%7B2%5Cpi%7De%5E%7Bi%5Comega(t-t')%7D%5Cfrac%7B1%7D%7B%5Clangle%5CPsi_0|%5CPsi_0%5Crangle%7D%20%5Cleft%20%5B%20%5Csum_n%20%5Cfrac%7B|%5Clangle%5CPsi%5E%7BN+1%7D_n|%5Chat%7Ba%7D%5E%7B%5Cdagger%7D_k|%5CPsi_0%5Crangle|%5E2%7D%7B%5Comega%20-%20%5Cmu%20-%20w_n%5E%7BN+1%7D+i%5Ceta%7D%20+%20%5Csum_n%20%5Cfrac%7B|%5Clangle%5CPsi%5E%7BN-1%7D_n|%5Chat%7Ba%7D_k|%5CPsi_0%5Crangle|%5E2%7D%7B%5Comega%20-%20%5Cmu%20+%20w_n%5E%7BN+1%7D-i%5Ceta%7D%20%5Cright%20%5D HTTP/1.1 And from Safari 3.0.4 (523.12) with a local debug build of WebKit r28516: GET /mimetex/G(/vec{k},t-t')%20=%20i/lim_{/eta/rightarrow%200^+}/int_{-/infty}^{+/infty}/frac{d/omega}{2/pi}e^{i/omega(t-t')}/frac{1}{/langle/Psi_0|/Psi_0/rangle}%20/left%20[%20/sum_n%20/frac{|/langle/Psi^{N+1}_n|/hat{a}^{/dagger}_k|/Psi_0/rangle|^2}{/omega%20-%20/mu%20-%20w_n^{N+1}+i/eta}%20+%20/sum_n%20/frac{|/langle/Psi^{N-1}_n|/hat{a}_k|/Psi_0/rangle|^2}{/omega%20-%20/mu%20+%20w_n^{N+1}-i/eta}%20/right%20] HTTP/1.1 And from MSIE 7 for good measure: GET /mimetex/G(/vec%7Bk%7D,t-t')%20=%20i/lim_%7B/eta/rightarrow%200%5E+%7D/int_%7B-/infty%7D%5E%7B+/infty%7D/frac%7Bd/omega%7D%7B2/pi%7De%5E%7Bi/omega(t-t')%7D/frac%7B1%7D%7B/langle/Psi_0%7C/Psi_0/rangle%7D%20/left%20[%20/sum_n%20/frac%7B%7C/langle/Psi%5E%7BN+1%7D_n%7C/hat%7Ba%7D%5E%7B/dagger%7D_k%7C/Psi_0/rangle%7C%5E2%7D%7B/omega%20-%20/mu%20-%20w_n%5E%7BN+1%7D+i/eta%7D%20+%20/sum_n%20/frac%7B%7C/langle/Psi%5E%7BN-1%7D_n%7C/hat%7Ba%7D_k%7C/Psi_0/rangle%7C%5E2%7D%7B/omega%20-%20/mu%20+%20w_n%5E%7BN+1%7D-i/eta%7D%20/right%20] HTTP/1.1
Heh...the problem is probably that Safari and MSIE are changing '\' to '/' while Firefox is encoding '\' to %5C. I wonder what rule Firefox is using to decide whether to treat a backslash as a directory separator versus a character to encode?
It's interesting that if you do a copy and paste of the uri in the address bar the images is displayed correctly. Could it be that safari treat the two uri in different manners?
(In reply to comment #6) > It's interesting that if you do a copy and paste of the uri in the address bar > the images is displayed correctly. Could it be that safari treat the two uri in > different manners? Yes, that is possible. It's also good to know!
(In reply to comment #6) > It's interesting that if you do a copy and paste of the uri in the address bar > the images is displayed correctly. Could it be that safari treat the two uri in > different manners? GET request from Safari address bar (which works): GET /mimetex/G(\vec{k},t-t')%20=%20i\lim_{\eta\rightarrow%200^+}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}\frac{d\omega}{2\pi}e^{i\omega(t-t')}\frac{1}{\langle\Psi_0|\Psi_0\rangle}%20\left%20[%20\sum_n%20\frac{|\langle\Psi^{N+1}_n|\hat{a}^{\dagger}_k|\Psi_0\rangle|^2}{\omega%20-%20\mu%20-%20w_n^{N+1}+i\eta}%20+%20\sum_n%20\frac{|\langle\Psi^{N-1}_n|\hat{a}_k|\Psi_0\rangle|^2}{\omega%20-%20\mu%20+%20w_n^{N+1}-i\eta}%20\right%20] HTTP/1.1
From KURL.cpp: 286 // for compatibility with Win IE, we must treat backslashes as if they were slashes, as long as we're not dealing with the javascript: schema 287 DeprecatedString substitutedRelative; 288 bool shouldSubstituteBackslashes = relative.contains('\\') && !relative.startsWith("javascript:", false); 289 if (shouldSubstituteBackslashes) { 290 substitutedRelative = substituteBackslashes(relative); 291 }
(In reply to comment #2) > I see a difference between "Bad" and "Good" images with a local debug build of > WebKit r28516 with Safari 3.0.4 (523.12) on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165). Ah, now I see - I was expecting a broken image or something. My bad.