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why is equation rendering still broken on the web?

http://everything2.com uses pre tags, wikipedia uses rendered png images.

is this just another ie work around or have we really not implemented a standard yet.

googled it myself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML

edit: thanks mbell! mathjax looks great

project to get mathjax working on wikipedia ~> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nageh/mathJax

breakdown of mathml support ~> http://caniuse.com/mathml (only firefox and safari)



Also see http://www.mathjax.org/docs/2.0/tex.html

Used on the most math heavy site I frequent: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/


Mathjax does not work great. It is slow, bothersome, and easily broken.

LaTeX and the web are in essence incommensurable.




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