I think it's a nice idea if to trigger such a suggestion. I would add
something to it though. I'd add a timer that checks how long it takes to
markup the page, and that when it detects that pages take extremely long to
finish rendering with MathJax, automatically proposes to the user to
'switch back'.
That makes the whole experience a bit safer for people.
DJ
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On 05/03/2013 03:29 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
On 3 May 2013 08:13, Peter Krautzberger
<peter.krautzberger(a)mathjax.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's an idea somebody suggested to me.
>
> I would like to propose a way for any visitor to opt-in to MathJax on
the
> fly. (Oh, maybe I should add a disclaimer: I
work for MathJax.)
>
> This would be simply a button on pages with math that would switch
MathJax
on (and
possibly off via a cookie).
What is the state of MathJax i18n currently? Before we show it to lots
of users it should be translatable.
Hard-coded into minified JavaScript (not using ResourceLoader),
unfortunately (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35038)
I think this is an interesting idea (it's a middle ground towards
possibly changing the default), worth exploring, but it definitely needs
some work. Filed at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48036
Note, there is already a bug about enabling it by default
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36496), which is a
bigger change.
See also
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35480 (a
proposal to send down PNG and then immediately transform it to MathJax
in supported browsers).
Matt Flaschen
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