The usual dilemma with emerging standards: content is useless without tools to create and manipulate it, and tool vendors are reluctant to embark upon costly developments when the market for the product is unclear. However, there are already a number of tools under development.
Another important issue is the general trend of web-based applications towards the use of XML as a carrier format. MathML is the only 'standard' XML DTD for maths on the Web. Indeed, the working group of the ISO 12083 committee considers that MathML could be an appropriate 'plugin' mathematics module in a future modular version of the 12083 standard.   _{Your Comment}