Talk:Superellipse: Difference between revisions
→Not OS specific - specific to whether the browser processes MathML directly, or tries to display the fall-back graphic file
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::::::::::::::: Hells bells, I didn't even know there ''was'' a Wiki pre-processor. I was surprised on how many there are, and also that so many of them are apparently supported by only one person instead of a team. I wonder how many of those pre-processors listed don't have this particular "bug". -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 03:09, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
:::::::::::::: The generator is announced, in the HTML created by Rosetta, as MediaWiki 1.26.2, and it looks to me as if that implies the use of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math, which does provide contact details.
:::::::::::::: We don't know that the behaviour is OS-specific. It does, however, depend on whether a given browser processes MathML directly (not a standard technology, and only supported within browser companies by volunteer-work, according to Wikipedia) or uses the more reliable fall-back of displaying a graphic file. On OS X for example, Firefox is using MathML to get a formula onto the screen, whereas Chrome and Safari take the route of displaying the fall-back graphic file, but are prevented from doing so by the unparseable HTML code which we have been serving up with increasing regularity, as the missing semi-colon spreads doggedly through our Task pages.
:::::::::::::: Syntactically incorrect HTML is certainly a bug from a browsers point of view, but we may find that the authors of the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math throw up their hands and ask us why on earth we thought that they supported the insertion of redundant white space literals around our Latex expressions :-) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 05:26, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
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