Microsoft Edge showing funny symbols instead of equations

Question

Opening webpages in Edge such as this one shows funny symbols. Opening it in Firefox shows proper equations. What gives?

Any way to make it work in Edge? Change the font? File a bug report?

Answer 1

According this section of the Wikipedia MathML page: "Of the major web browsers, Gecko-based browsers (e.g., Firefox and Camino) have the most complete native support for MathML" and "Internet Explorer does not support MathML natively". Here's the entire relevant paragraph:

Internet Explorer does not support MathML natively. Support for IE6 through IE9 can be added by installing the MathPlayer plugin.[22] IE10 has some crashing bugs with MathPlayer and Microsoft decided to completely disable in IE11 the binary plug-in interface that MathPlayer needs.[23] MathPlayer has a license that may limit its use or distribution in commercial webpages and software. Using or distributing the MathPlayer plugin to display HTML content via the WebBrowser control in commercial software may also be forbidden by this license.

In summary, it sounds like you could download and install the (free) MathPlayer plug-in to make it work. Unfortunately—as I mentioned in a comment—I don't have Edge on my system, so I can't verify whether doing so would solve your problem or not...

Here's the current MathPlayer Download and Installation page, so you can try it yourself if you wish (note however there's no mention of Edge support that I could find).