Re: Fwd announcement "Towards MathJax 3.0"

Hi www-math,

Thanks for cross-posting here, Bill! It was on our to-do list but fell
through the cracks.

> However, as I understand it, their html/css and svg renderings will
continue to be derived from MathML

That's correct though improving MathJax's internal format (which is
essentially MathML) is on the table.

> and the (MathJax versions of) Tex and ascii-math inputs will continue to
be available as author-friendly inputs for math.

That's correct.

Best regards,
Peter.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:44 PM William F Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Friends --
>
> Several days ago the MathJax team announced plans for
> version 3 of MathJax.  It appears that the MathJax team no
> longer wants their development path to be focused on
> promoting native browser rendering of MathML.
>
> However, as I understand it, their html/css and svg
> renderings will continue to be derived from MathML and the
> (MathJax versions of) Tex and ascii-math inputs will
> continue to be available as author-friendly inputs for math.
>
> I'm surprised that they seem not to have announced it here.
> Someone else shared the announcement in "texhax", and I
> think it to be of even more relevance here.  The team's
> thoughts about diagrams are certainly relevant here.
>
> https://www.mathjax.org/whitepaper-towards-mathjax-v3/
>
>                           -- Bill
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