3 ms·
MathML support in Chrome has been greatly enhanced just in January [1]. I don't have strong opinions, but I guess the advantage over TeX is, as always, that Ma
by tannhaeuser 4y ago
MathML support in Chrome has been greatly enhanced just in January [1].
I don't have strong opinions, but I guess the advantage over TeX is, as always, that MathML is much better integrated with the web stack and markup such that you can target math formulas using CSS, that it has much better accessibility, internationalization, and search, that you can use JS/DOM access with MathML for educational and science presentation apps, etc.
It's not like TeX is uncontroversially better (eg Turing completeness, terse, lacking editor support, print-oriented, purely presentational, ...)
[1]: https://mathml.igalia.com/news/2023/01/10/mathml-in-chromium-project-is-completed/#new https://mathml.igalia.com/news/2023/01/10/mathml-in-chromium...
Edit: arguably MathML is excessive as well but at least its XMLism such as insistence on enclosing every operand in tags as the primary source of bloat and incomprehensibility in presentational math can be somewhat mitigated using SGML, as was already suggested with MathML's precursor in 1995 or so [2] for high school math and/or custom math fragments.
[2]: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/maths.html https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/maths.html