MathJax – Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers
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HN comment orderI use MathJax on one site I'm developing. It has two problems related to speed: 1. It is so modular that you cannot really optimize it using something like Google Closure (http://code.google.com/closure/ ). If you do, it breaks it. 2. The modularity means that you're likely to need a few roundtrips to the server to get everything. Invariably these block the loading of the page and you get a hang, sometimes for a few seconds. This is not good for…
My blog (eg https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2021m09d08/ ) uses MathJax on the serverside (via mathjax-node-cli) which gets rendered into SVG images. I find that this is nice because it's faster and the page doesn't jump around all the time while the equations are rendering. Equations can be cached. I can add alt text for accessibility. Common mistakes that other people make when using an image-based approach include: * failing to apply the proper sizing and offset for the baseline * using a raster…
If your startup involves displaying mathematics on webpages, use this.
wow look good I like it
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-03-24 | MathJax: Math display for all browsers | rayvega | 1 | 1 |
| 2010-04-20 | MathJax: High-quality display of LaTeX and MathML for all browsers | bensummers | 1 | 0 |
| 2010-08-13 | Mathjax - Beautiful math in all browsers (LaTeX/MathML) | timf | 5 | 0 |
| 2010-08-13 | MathJax | Beautiful math in all browsers | desigooner | 1 | 0 |
| 2010-12-06 | MathJax, beautiful math in all browsersFirst breakout · Best thread | scw | 318 | 36 |
| 2012-12-07 | Beautiful math in all browsers | lelf | 9 | 1 |
| 2015-05-19 | MathJax – LaTeX rendering in browser | astdb | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-05-14 | Beautiful math in all browsers | 0xmohit | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-02-13 | MathJax – Beautiful math in all browsers | susam | 7 | 0 |
| 2020-05-23 | MathJax: Beautiful Math in All Browsers | vladoh | 4 | 2 |
| 2023-10-13 | MathJax – Beautiful and accessible math in all browsersHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | peter_d_sherman | 228 | 77 |