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Re:In defence of the boring web by MaxBarraclough on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:18PM (#30140155)
Looks great, hadn't heard of KaTeX before.

Basic question: does it share any code in common with MathJax? If not, why not just run MathJax once server-side rather than on the client? Does MathJax have browser-specific accommodations, or does it not map to HTML at all, or is it something else?

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Re:In defence of the boring web by klodolph on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:33PM (#30140308)
Both MathJax and KaTeX let you run once server-side, if that's your fancy.

They map to a combination of HTML and MathML, with a bunch of CSS rules.

KaTeX's JavaScript code is a mere 68 KB when gzipped. IMO, that's worth it, so I don't have to fuss about with Node.js as much when generating the site.

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