Talk:Superellipse
Formulae now invisible on standard OS X browsers
May need tidying up to achieve formula visibility on the OS X platform. Problems may include flanking of LateX expressions with redundant white space inside <math> tags Hout (talk) 13:29, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Not all OSX browsers, so far I have only seen the problem with Safari and Chrome. This is not limited to math markup, though - I have been seeing many many images fail to load under Safari. Perhaps we should be recommending that OSX users switch to Firefox? --Rdm (talk) 13:34, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- I don't think so - the problem is new and quickly fixed - pruning back the newly-introduced redundant spaces will restore visibility on the major browsers on that platform. If we do want to understand the etiology, then we probably need to look at the Latex -> HTML stage of the wiki software. But the experimental result is already clear. Adding that space adds nothing for the users, but does prevent significant numbers from seeing the formulae. Hout (talk) 13:42, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Formula visibility can be consistently toggled here by introducing and removing a leading or terminating space, before or after the Latex expression, in a <math> tag:
- <math>Latex</math> ⇄ <math> Latex </math>
- (Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit), Safari Version 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.8)) Hout (talk) 14:45, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- It does work for me, now, also. --Rdm (talk) 15:22, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- Toggling flanking space now proves sufficient to toggle formula visibility in OSX Chrome and Safari, but it looks as if some of Gerard's other spacing edits can also suppress visibility in the same contexts. In short, lost formula visibility can more consistently be restored by simply reverting the contents of the math tags to their state on the last date before the TOC spacing edits were undertaken. Hout (talk) 16:33, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- It does work for me, now, also. --Rdm (talk) 15:22, 16 September 2016 (UTC)