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Now, I am probably wrong but am asking this due to curiosity. Could they conceivably use HTML5 to render dynamically thus reducing resource/load cost? Edit:
by malnourish 16y ago
Now, I am probably wrong but am asking this due to curiosity.
Could they conceivably use HTML5 to render dynamically thus reducing resource/load cost?
Edit: No to Now
- steveklabnik 16y agoI hope they don't try to sue me for this post. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+%2B+5 (oh noes!) gives an image containing '7'. They could just freaking put a 7. Granted, not all of their queries could be done this way, and some of those could indeed be done with canvas, for example. Dunno if those would be faster. But all of the numbers and tables could stand to just be numbers and tables. This is more of a gripe about copy/paste than performance, really: I'd imagine their calculations take a lot longer than making a .png
- yesimahuman 16y agoMaybe it's a guard against common scraping?
- malnourish 16y agoMakes sense. What if they output in LaTeX for more complex things, and there was a LaTeX plugin for browsers?
- 27182818284 16y agoI've seen Chrome plugins and I know there are Greasemonkey scripts for automatically LaTeXing plain text on web pages. I don't think this is a viable solution for W|A, however.
- imrehg 16y agoMathJax for the win :)
- ars 16y agoThe rendering is not the hard part - the mathematical calculation is.