"Helder.wiki" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r104498.
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/104498#c30479

Commit summary for MediaWiki.r104498:

Disable the partial HTML and MathML rendering options for Math extension.

MathML mode was so incomplete most people thought it simply didn't work (bug 
25646).
HTML modes often rendered poorly (eg req bug 24207 to set default to PNG on 
some sites)

This may cause regressions in that simple "equations" of just variables that 
came out as HTML
will now render as PNGs that don't get aligned properly with the text baseline. 
Fixing this is
covered by bug 32694: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32694> to 
retrieve the
baseline info from dvipng and position images to fit.

Note that because of the way user options are pulled in to the oarser cache 
key, some folks
may see cached pages with their old settings until they get redone or they save 
their prefs
again and have it normalized.

Helder.wiki's comment:

The list of options on enwiki differs from what is available 
[http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering
 on Wikimedia labs]. So I believe when MW 1.19 is deployed, together with the 
newer version of the extensions, there will be a visible change on Wikimedia 
wikis, because the default math rendering is not PNG.

BTW: Would this change cause any cache problems on big wikis, considering that 
a lot (?) of formulas would need to be re-rendered in PNG?

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