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Since the advent of MathJax, the best bet for anyone wanting to present maths on the web has been to write the text in LaTeX and then render with MathJax. The result is that there is a large set of existing web-sites around that have LaTeX source and not MathML source.

No I am no JavaScript fan, and would be very glad if mathse were supported natively in web rendering toolkits. But at least mathjax does gives some sort of workable solution: wehere "workable" means "users can read it" and "authors can write it".

MathML, being unsupported by Chrome fails first thing, and MathML fails the second thing by design, because it was never really meant to be human editable.



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