Dear watchful WorkingWiki warriors,
I want to warn you of a change in the software.
We've been using MathJax [www.mathjax.org] to display the math on our
wikis at McMaster for a while, and it seems to be working well enough
that I want to go ahead and make it the default behavior. This will
give us good-looking scaleable math on a wide variety of browsers, as
opposed to the current setup, which basically gives you nice scalable
math on Firefox if you download the right math fonts and ask for it in
the wiki preferences, and gives you bitmap images of the math otherwise.
If you do happen to use Firefox and have the math fonts, because using
that is faster than MathJax, you'll still get that behavior instead of
MathJax if you select the "use MathML" preference item on the wiki.
This change takes effect in revision 837 of WorkingWiki. If you're
already using the WW MathJax feature (by explicitly enabling it on your
wikis) you're fine already and you can ignore this, unless you want the
part where the preferences item turns off MathJax. If you're using WW
tarfiles instead of subversion and you want the new code, let me know.
Any concerns or questions, please let me know.
Lee
P.S. Note that this whole business is completely independent of any
other MW extensions including the Math extension and the MathJax
extension, which can be confusing.
P.S.2. There is one exception to that, which is that if you use the Math
extension's preference item to request MathML, WorkingWiki respects your
choice, so that we can avoid having redundant questions on the
preferences page. In MediaWiki 1.18 or later, there's a WW-specific
preferences item, because you don't necessarily have the Math extension.
If you are opting to use the Math extension anyway, WW's preference
item is redundant and you can make it go away by setting
$wwProvideMathmlPreference = false.
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