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Nov 28, 2011, 5:25 PM
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Re: MathJax integration to stock MediaWiki Math extension? (was RFC: math options)
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Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Brion Vibber <brion [at] pobox> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:05 PM, MZMcBride <z [at] mzmcbride> wrote:
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>>> Brion Vibber wrote:
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>> [.snip my notes about removing the non-PNG non-source options, wanting
>> higher-resolution renderings]
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>>> Did you have a chance to evaluate MathJax? <http://www.mathjax.org/> I
>>> know
>>> it's come up in past math discussions and that a lot of math folks think
>>> it
>>> looks promising. A technical analysis of its feasibility on Wikimedia
>>> wikis
>>> would be great. Killing the less-used, ancient math options is great, but
>>> perhaps adding one wouldn't be too bad to do too. :-)
>>>
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>> That's an excellent thing to bring up -- MathJAX *does* look very
>> promising, and things seem to render pretty nicely. Need to make sure that
>> we can either do that type of rendering cleanly with the PNG fallback
>> (older browsers will still need the PNGs, so it may still be worth spending
>> the time to fix baselines).
>>
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> I've done a quick experimental mode commit:
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/104521>
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> definitely promising in terms of things look nice. :)
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Sweet, thanks! I forwarded it to some math folks.
I also saw your comments at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31406#c6
Nice work. :-)
MZMcBride
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Re: MathJax integration to stock MediaWiki Math extension? (was RFC: math options)