On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> When I load their homepage, the formulas don't appear for about two >> seconds of 100% CPU usage, on Firefox 4b9. And that's for two small >> formulas. I'm not impressed. IMO, the correct way forward is to work >> on native MathML support -- Gecko and WebKit both support it these >> days, and Opera somewhat does too. I'm sure the support is a bit >> spotty, but if Wikipedia used it (even as an off-by-default option) >> that would surely drive a lot of progress. These days (with the >> deployment of HTML5 parsers) it can be embedded directly into HTML, >> it's not limited to XML. > > Looking at http://www.mathjax.org/demos/tex-samples/ it may indeed take > a couple of seconds to convert from TeX to the graphical view, but > without 100% CPU usage or looking "blocked". I'm not using 49b but > 3.6.12, though. I see a similar result in chromium. > A disadvantage is that the showing the formula needs to reposition the > content, instead of reserving the space in advance.
Delurking to say that while I don't know if it's useful for us at all, Mathjax is getting lots of buzz in other settings (like publishing and the science library world); and also I just today came across this http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html It's not directly applicable but it is a fun usability idea for turning symbols into LaTeX (and by extension I can imagine symbols to markup, letters to unicode, etc.) -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com * _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
