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>Browsers don't have native support for MathML any more for a good reason. Mozilla did support this for a while but dropped it because of limited adoption and h
by KwanEsq 11mo ago
>Browsers don't have native support for MathML any more for a good reason. Mozilla did support this for a while but dropped it because of limited adoption and high maintenance burden.
This seems to just be entirely untrue?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML shows wide support (For Chromium/Blink-based since version 109) and if I open the example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/Proving_the_Pythagorean_theorem https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/P... in Firefox and Edge both seem to render it correctly.
- detaro 11mo agoI assume GP just totally missed that it was added to Chromium 2-3 years ago, thanks to Igalia contributing support for it.
- jillesvangurp 11mo agoIndeed completely missed that. Of course, the web needs to work on safari and firefox as well. So, it doesn't quite address the core issue here.
- goranmoomin 11mo agoAFAIK Safari was the first browser to support MathML fully, and FF also supports it. Chromium was the latest IIRC. MathML has been baseline-available since 2023 after Chromium got support. The big issue is that MathML is designed as a target language, not something directly writable. So we still need a KaTeX equivalent, which compiles either LaTeX equations or other markup languages to MathML. Regardless, the core issue that you have mentioned is now gone (or will be in a few years even if you want more availability).
- detaro 11mo agoThe core issue that Chromium was the one major browser not supporting it? Or what core issue?