I think being able to easily render mathematical expressions is critical, almost as critical as rendering linguistic expressions, if the web wants to be taken

I think being able to easily render mathematical expressions is critical, almost as critical as rendering linguistic expressions, if the web wants to be taken seriously as a place to publish scientific work and not just upload science as a different mime-type attachment. Many scientists are highly technical with regard to their field, but when it comes to web development, they have no idea how to write HTML, let alone how to include a javascript file in their HTML documents.