[OS X TeX] OS X and iOS Futures (was LaTeXit and Keynote 6)

[Alain Schremmer]

On Nov 14, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Red Roo wrote:

> Until I saw Herb's remark, I wasn't sure anyone else had foreseen  
> this  problem. This raises the question, might there be some way  
> that the MacTeX community could make this viewpoint known to the  
> decision makers at Apple? The decisions will very likely be made  
> sooner rather than later.
>
> Maybe this is already being done or done elsewhere (perhaps more  
> directly via the OSX dev community). Or, maybe others don't see it  
> as an important issue. But primarily I wanted to second Herb's point  
> here, just in case, as well as find out what MacTex developers think  
> about it.

Inevitably, sooner or later, support for the Mac OS is going to be  
ended just as support for, say, the Power PC was dropped---as well as,  
more generally, support for 10.4 and 10.5.

It seems to me that the only solution is something along the lines of  
TenFourFox but I have no idea what/who is behind it. But, indeed, I  
have finally switched from Safari to TenFourFox. The latter does not  
support plugins but, at least, does not crash the way Safari does and  
certainly seems to be maintained.

Hopeful regards
--schremmer