Interestingly, the second demo with the “fixed” layout behavior actually has digits cut off as I move the slider around in my browser; I’m not sure why. More on topic, though, I’m somewhat disappointed that MathML doesn’t seem to have taken off as much as it could have: it would be really nice to be able to send some code embedded in HTML and have it render on the client without any JavaScript at all. I wonder if the delay in implementation has anything to do with the abundance of use of MathJax, making working on it low-priority.
> I wonder if the delay in implementation has anything to do with the abundance of use of MathJax, making working on it low-priority.
I've thought the exact same thing before.
In the future I'm planning some articles with math on my personal website, and my current intention is to only use MathML without any JS renderer. I use Firefox so this isn't a problem for me. This would make the page a fair bit lighter, rendering time faster, and maybe make web developers using Chrome think twice about ensuring compatibility as too many websites are Chrome-only these days. ;-) [1]
Seems that there is some progress in getting MathML in Chrome so possibly by the time these articles go online, there won't be an issue.
> We have, however, set what we believe is a very achievable and safe target goal: to get MathML support fully upstreamed and shipping in Chrome by August 2020.
[1] One major example I noticed in the past few days is that https://wiki.c2.com/ no longer seems to work in Firefox at all. I just get an error saying "Trouble Encountered". Works fine in Chromium.
It's a pity that Google is so short on cash that they apparently can't spare the $320k that's still missing from the funding of the Igalia implementation. All those ads on Google web properties that tell users of MathML supporting browsers to upgrade to Google Chrome must have eaten their development budget.
With KaTeX's 'output' option (https://katex.org/docs/next/options.html) you can have both. For providing accessibility for screen readers, TeX formula copying etc. you have to choose one of the MathML options of course. For pure rendering, the html is good enough (even with Chrome).
I use katex on my pelican generated static site to do exactly this. Using this plugin [1], the latex is converted to MathML at compile time. Only thing that is loaded are the math fonts. There is no javascript involved.
