MathJax: Math just works on the web now

It's very nice and all, but it doesn't just work for all of us, because it requires JavaScript.

That means there are people who will have to figure out which domain(s) to whitelist in NoScript, among other things. And the LaTeX logo still doesn't work even after that, unless it wasn't intended to look like the real one: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:LaTeX_lo...

Maybe just whitelist any site using MathJax? Probably a reasonable policy.

I can't really tell the difference in the LaTeX logo, but I think it's silly to actually typeset the logo that way when talking about LaTeX. I'd refuse to do the silly camelCase thing as well except to make it clear I'm not talking about latex as in rubber.

Anyway, who cares about the logo, the important thing is that the math looks freakin awesome.

Hacker News discussion over a year ago when MathJax was relatively new: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997096

And more recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1974646

I had known about MathJax but didn't realize that it was that easy. Just include a couple lines at the top of your html document and then just type math exactly like a LaTeX document. I want to find someone who helped make this possible and hug them!