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Re: Mathjax

#11

Post by mreid »

I guess mobile Safari is not one of the 20+ browsers that are supported at present. Anyone else not seeing rendered math on their iPhone?

Re: Mathjax

#12

Post by PaulTopping »

Word got out on MathJax a little early, as things tend to do on the web. We barely got a sample page up. Although it probably won't matter, our hope is you don't hammer MathJax too hard until we get things going and officially announce. Very soon now!

Paul Topping Design Science, Inc. (one of the MathJax founders)

Re: Mathjax

#13

Post by hyperbovine »

christopherolah wrote: post #2

This came up on the sage (FOSS alternative to Mathematica and freinds) mailing lists and I thought I'd post it here. It always surprises me how difficult math on the Internet has turned out to be. Hopefully this can help...

MathML was supposed to be the answer, and we all know how that went. Just goes to show how over the top people were going with XML in the late 1990s. I mean,

  
  
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to typeset the fucking quadratic formula?

Re: Mathjax

#14

Post by cool-RR »

Very exciting. This project looks impressive and I really hope it succeeds.

Also, what would be really orgasmic is if it would be possible to type math in Latex inside the browser and see it displayed nicely like that. But this is probably asking for too much.

Re: Mathjax

#15

Post by gnosis »

cool-RR wrote: post #14

Very exciting. This project looks impressive and I really hope it succeeds. Also, what would be really orgasmic is if it would be possible to type math in Latex inside the browser and see it displayed nicely like that. But this is probably asking for too much.

Now that they've gotten this far, what you describe can't be too far away.

Re: Mathjax

#16

Post by gfodor »

Wow.. this is the missing piece to the puzzle for a project I'm thinking about working on soon. Is this going to be open source?

Re: Mathjax

#17

Post by slug »

PaulTopping wrote: post #12

Word got out on MathJax a little early, as things tend to do on the web. We barely got a sample page up. Although it probably won't matter, our hope is you don't hammer MathJax too hard until we get things going and officially announce. Very soon now! Paul Topping Design Science, Inc. (one of the MathJax founders)

Nice work! I can see the rendered formulas with firefox (3.5.5) but not with konqueror (kde 4.3.3).

Re: Mathjax

#18

Post by zackattack »

andreyf wrote: post #7

Neat! But... Mathjax - Math JavaScript and XML?

AJAX is not about XML anymore. A lot of people use XHRs with JSON. AJAX now refers to the dynamic phenomenon. So their name is indeed appropriate. Evolution.

Re: Mathjax

#20

Post by blasdel »

zackattack wrote: post #18
andreyf wrote: post #7

Neat! But... Mathjax - Math JavaScript and XML?

AJAX is not about XML anymore. A lot of people use XHRs with JSON. AJAX now refers to the dynamic phenomenon. So their name is indeed appropriate. Evolution.

XMLHttpRequest : XML :: JavaScript : Java :: Hamster : Ham

They never had anything to do with one another, it's just the module that Microsoft happened to dump it in.

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