On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:55 AM, C. Scott Ananian
<cananian(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It seems like many of those issues could be worked
around if mediawiki/core
kept a simple "uses math markup" boolean for each page. All the overhead
of MathJax could be eliminated unless it was actually needed.
This is already be the case. MathJax is loaded by a small RL module
that itself is only loaded on pages containing the <math> tag.
You can test this easily enough: create a page with "<span
class="tex">$ E = m c^2 $</span>" and it won't be MathJaxed.
Then add
a <math> tag and it suddenly will be.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation