Talk:MathJax

How does MathJax work?

A short summary / clue about the tech principles used would be nice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.195.70.148 (talk) 08:55, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

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Mathjax → MathJax — MathJax, with a capital 'J', is the official project name. VNNS (talk) 05:43, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

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Sponsors, etc.

The Sponsors are named. I suggest that it would be well to either list the partners & supporters, or at least to mention their existence and the page that names them, http://www.mathjax.org/sponsors/ . 94.30.84.71 (talk) 18:31, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

List of Browsers

The list of browsers looks very stale. As a minimum, "and later" or similar is needed. It would seem well to mention a few operating systems (with "etc.") too. 94.30.84.71 (talk) 18:35, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

slang in links

Illiterates call everything written in mathematical notation "equations", and maybe that slang usage is acceptable in some contexts when talking about typography. But when the first sentence of this article used the word "equations" in that sense (and I've changed it to "notation"), it actually linked to the article titled Equation, which is totally off-topic for the link, since it's about equations in the literal sense of the word. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:17, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Considering LaTeX's primary math environment is called \equation{}, it's hardly slang for "illiterates" when used in typesetting context. Your point about the link stands though and it has since been changed. SamuelRiv (talk) 15:45, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia no longer supports MathJax

And when it did, it was only for registered users who changed it from the setting. Should it be removed? Anyone knows why they removed it? It looks so much nicer than the bitmap rendering. Galzigler (talk) 15:32, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Actually it is a bit inaccurate. Wikipedia uses MathJax in the backend to parse the latex and generate SVG files. It is more that Wikipedia does no longer support client side MathJax. The reasoning is that on large pages client side mathjax can be a little slow to render 100's of equations. Also there were problems with support for a wide range of browsers.

You can get client side MathJax there is a chrome extension [1]. You can also do it with a userscript. I think User:Salix alba/MathJax.js works but its been a while since I tested it. --Salix alba (talk): 15:56, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer about the reason. I think the whole idea of MathJax is cross-browser support. That's a bit odd. I'm already using such a script in my global.js. Galzigler (talk) 18:09, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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CORS Headers?

When MathJax uses a CDN to fetch fonts from the web, doesn't it need a CORS policy set on the page when using HTTPS? The docs state MathJax uses Cloudfare, so something like the following in httpd.conf:

<FilesMatch ".(eot|ttf|otf|woff)">
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax"
</FilesMatch>

It would be nice to drill into cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax, if possible. Otherwise we get exposed to all the bugs of the 3300 other open source projects hosted on cdnjs.cloudflare.com.