[Maxima-discuss] MathML in the maxima manual

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

Dear all,

When MathJaX was added to the maxima manual

  * Only firefox had direct support for MathML built-in
  * and while MathJaX' TeX support was excellent its MathML support was
    - well... ...suboptimal => TeX was the way to go.

In the meantime things have changed a lot:

  * Chrome and firefox have built-in (and fast) MathML support
  * On the rest of the browsers MathJaX is able to parse (and render)
    MathML correctly

Would it make sense to add all new equations in MathML format directly 
instead of using TeX and then telling MathJaX to translate it for the 
browser? On browsers that still don't support MathML (Safari) MathJaX 
can convert them to whatever this browser supports.

Rationale: If the browser has a built-in MathJaX support that one is 
*fast* - and MathJaX needs a bit of time to parse the 
all-in-one-singlepage manual if that one is opened.

Kind regards,

    Gunter.