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People use math, but they use it with Latex not MathML, MathML is too verbose, so even if browsers implemented it people would need libraries like MathJax.
by chr1 10y ago
People use math, but they use it with Latex not MathML, MathML is too verbose, so even if browsers implemented it people would need libraries like MathJax.
- runarberg 10y agoNothing is stopping you from authoring your math however you like as long as there are tools that support the translation[1]: [1]: http://fred-wang.github.io/TeXZilla/ http://fred-wang.github.io/TeXZilla/
- jrimbault 10y agoI wish people used LaTeX. I only get "what's that?" most of the time.
- aplaice 10y agoI don't think that LaTeX is a significant competitor of MathML, just like markdown isn't a competitor to HTML. If you're writing something for the web, you're highly unlikely to be directly inputting HTML, whether it's on Wikipedia, StackOverflow or Hacker News, so you'll need some sort of server-side processor or a javascript library previewer, anyway. Native (browser) support of MathML is far more convenient for the reader and not more cumbersome for the writer.