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Change default <math> display to utilise "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback" at English Wikisource
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At English Wikisource we are having issues that the default display for users logged in, and logged out is the PNG images setting and that is not helpful for display of transcribed pages.

eg. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Radio-active_substances.djvu/49

Gives errors in PNG and sometimes in Latex

Browser statistics show that users are using more modern browsers, so it seems preferable to have the default to the modern display of math, and allow users to rollback to the other preference if they so choose.

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Billinghurst created this task.Mar 23 2016, 5:12 AM
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Billinghurst renamed this task from Math displayerrors at enWS to Change default <math> display to utilise "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback".Mar 23 2016, 5:52 AM
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AuFCL subscribed.Mar 23 2016, 12:54 PM

"Traditionally" (by which I mean at least for the last couple of years) \mbox{} has not accepted most Unicode content and instead thrown the errors originally detailed.

I am more concerned that the parsing and validation under various modes appears to be inconsistent; either PNG mode is rejecting input which it ought to be capable of handling, or MathML is not validating sufficiently stringently and simply "hoping" the browser can cope with whatever unverified rubbish is being hurled at it. Neither seems particularly optimal?

Dereckson subscribed.Mar 29 2016, 6:20 PM

See also T131177 for a similar request.

Billinghurst added a comment.Apr 3 2016, 3:00 AM

Are we able to get the change made, or is there a technical reason that the configuration cannot be updated for the default?

Physikerwelt added a subtask: T104550: Make MathML rendering default on BETA wikipedia.Apr 7 2016, 2:25 PM
• mobrovac closed subtask T104550: Make MathML rendering default on BETA wikipedia as Resolved.Apr 13 2016, 5:20 PM
Physikerwelt closed this task as a duplicate of T131177: Enable MathML by default.Apr 15 2016, 10:36 PM
Physikerwelt mentioned this in T131177: Enable MathML by default.Apr 15 2016, 10:39 PM
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