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What's wrong with mathjax?

• goatlover 9y ago
  The fact that you have to load a large javascript library to faithfully render math equations. I ended up disabling it on my Jupyter notebook server because of it's load time.
  • wenc 9y ago
    MathML rendering is unlikely to be significantly better in many use cases. Besides, once MathJax is cached, it loads pretty fast.
    • Dylan16807 9y ago
      Load time, not rendering time. Code in the browser won't need to be compiled over and over at runtime.
      • wenc 9y ago
        The render time is fairly fast on most modern browsers on desktop machines (though there's much more variance on mobile devices for some reason). For the most part, it's good enough for the professional mathematicians on mathoverflow.net, where the math can get quite hairy. (I was active there many years ago, and even then the render speed was better than acceptable)