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> Mathjax, mathml and stuff are less than 10 years old MathML is from the 90s and MathJax is from 2009.
by cwzwarich 3y ago
> Mathjax, mathml and stuff are less than 10 years old
MathML is from the 90s and MathJax is from 2009.
- seanhunter 3y agoGetting arbitrary latex content to render well in HTML using mathjax is not trivial. There is a lot of valid tex that doesn't render correctly in mathjax without various little tweaks (adding newlines mainly) and of course this doesn't include package dependencies etc. I encounter this all the time because my personal notes in obsidian include a lot of equations etc. Mathjaxx will very frequently fail to render valid tex as html when you have something like $$\begin{align} and I have to go through and change this to $$ \begin{align} ...to get it to work. On another site I try to post equations to, mathjaxx will stochastically mangle equations if I post them on my ipad vs working fine (except for the issue above) if I post from my laptop.
- jessriedel 3y agoThey didn't work well at all back then. And they still work worse than LaTeX, although the deficiencies have become acceptable.
- znpy 3y agoYeah but pretty much no browser implemented mathml until fairly recent. A spec is worth very little without an usable implementation.