One of my major projects for the break between spring and summer quarters is to fix the tutorials' section. They are in desperate need of recoding, removing popup windows, etc. I plan on introducing the proper display of math equations instead of using gif images like I used to do.

So I played around a few days ago and uploaded the MathJax JavaScript software. You can see the sample page here to get an idea of what I’m planning for the display of mathematical formulae in sections like the dimensional analysis tutorial.

Huh. It turns out that the HTML5 versions of the podcasts do play in Internet Explorer v9 and the problem was mine all along (I hate that!).

I have been working on the problem of my not being able to see the podcasts since I started using the HTML5 tags and I’ve searched the web for clues since the beginning (about 9 months). I finally accidentally stumbled upon the problem. It turns out that there are some problems when running Internet Explorer v9 virtually in VMWare Fusion v3! I don’t have access to IE v9 at work because we’re on v8 so I’ve been doing this with my own machine.

Sure enough, when I reboot my Mac using Boot Camp, they worked! More digging turned up the real problem. I have to disable 3d graphics hardware acceleration in the VMWare settings and then the HTML5 video works.