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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.
N.B. Being able to benefit from unexpected advances like this is exactly why I standardized on LaTeX, even though it's kind of a pain to convert it to HTML. If you're trying to solve the math typesetting problem and not using LaTeX, you're on the wrong (coughMathMLcough) track.
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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.
Isn't that kind of like SAT no longer standing for anything and it just being the name of the test now? Or, was that movie just making that up?
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)
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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.
Not completely true... The X in XHR stands for XML, as that's what it parses natively [1], whereas parsing JSON wasn't native until relatively recently. JavaScript had Java's syntax. Not sure about hamsters and ham...
1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534370(VS.85).aspx
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).
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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.
They never had anything to do with one another Not completely true... The X in XHR stands for XML, as that's what it parses natively [1], whereas parsing JSON wasn't native until relatively recently. JavaScript had Java's syntax. Not sure about hamsters and ham... 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534370(VS.85).aspx
JavaScript's syntax is less like Java's than any other popular language that idiomatically uses curly-braces to delimit blocks.
Hamster starts with Ham, but they are as unrelated as two things can be that exist in the same broad category (flesh).
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)