Re: [Docutils-users] MathJax3 question

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2021-05-29, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> I'm starting to try out MathJax3 with the rst2html5 option
>      --math-output="MathJax https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-mml-chtml.js"
> as suggested here:
>      https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/config.html#math-output

> However, the resulting HTML file does not include the polyfill recommended here:
>      https://www.mathjax.org/#gettingstarted

> Looking at http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/output/browser.html leads me to believe
> that MathJax3 is currently using ES5 and that the polyfill is only needed for
> outdated browsers. And in fact, I am seeing ZERO problems.
> So I suppose that leaving out the polyfill is a browser-support decision.

> I am NOT worried about old browsers.
> I would just like to confirm my understanding.

The idea is to keep things simple in our interface and documentation while
giving helpful links so that the interested user can easily find the full
documentation (in this case about MathJaX).

Since the latest improvements in MathML output, there may be even less need to
introduce additional dependencies and JavaScript.

Günter