On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
It's conceivable that a few folks really honestly prefer to see the latex source in their graphical browsers (should at least do a quick stat check to see if anybody uses it on purpose), but I wouldn't mind removing that either.
Some people are using this method to have MathJax render the math on Wikipedia pages, by installing the MathJax javascript in their user javascript. Disabling the text-only option would also break this.
It would really be worthwhile for us to look into making MathJax available as an option for all users without forcing them to modify their user javascript. It's basically just a few javascript files and some static files on a webserver. They claim very broad browser compatibility ( http://www.mathjax.org/resources/browser-compatibility/ ) , and everything is released under the Apache license IIRC.
- Carl