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The feature I'm most interested in is not mentioned in this chart at all: whether my feeds will render correctly! I read a bunch of math blogs, many of which ar
by omaranto 13y ago
The feature I'm most interested in is not mentioned in this chart at all: whether my feeds will render correctly! I read a bunch of math blogs, many of which are on WordPress and use some LaTeX plugin for formulas. Many RSS readers do not render the formulas at all (I'm not sure why). Google Reader does it right, as does the RSS to email service blogtrottr.com (which is what I'm using now). Last time I tried Feedly, to give just one example, the formulas didn't show up.
I asked on /r/math for RSS feed readers that don't use Google Reader as a backend and render formulas correctly and didn't get a single answer, so I'm not optimistic. Maybe reading math blogs is too small a niche for RSS readers to bother with it?
- mkr-hn 13y agoThe suggestion for proper math support in Feedly has 125 votes. You can add your vote: https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/suggestions/3745440-latex-math-support https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/sugge...
- omaranto 13y agoMmh. That suggestion mentions MathJax, but the WordPress LaTeX plugin many blogs use is not so fancy. That plugin insert formulas as images, dynamically generated by a PHP script, using URL's like this one: http://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Cdisplaystyle+H%5E%2A%28%5Cmathrm%7Btmf%7D%3B+%5Cmathbb%7BZ%7D%2F2%29+%5Csimeq+%5Cmathcal%7BA%7D+%5Cotimes_%7B%5Cmathcal%7BA%7D%282%29%7D+%5Cmathbb%7BZ%7D%2F2%2C+&bg=ffffff&fg=000000&s=0 That is most likely much easier to support than MathJax, which involves running JavaScript code. Having MathJax support too would be great, but I'd be satisfied with the WordPress PHP LaTeX plugin thingy.