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Math rendering on the web
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 4 threads.
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Equations are hard to write by hand without external toolsUnreviewed
20162026- Writing MathML by hand is basically unusable for humans2023-01-11
- Equations are very hard to write comfortably by hand without external tools2019-03-09
- Hard to write by hand once math gets moderately complex, like SVG's usability problems2016-04-07
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Writing MathML by hand is basically unusable for humans2023-01-11
- Notation looks extremely verbose and hard to use2021-08-12
- Horrible markup syntax makes authoring math hard; layout inconsistent across browsers2019-03-09
- Equations are very hard to write comfortably by hand without external tools2019-03-09
- Converting MathML back to TeX and reusing XML parsers is hard, requiring substantial custom effort2016-04-10
- Hard to write by hand once math gets moderately complex, like SVG's usability problems2016-04-07
- Nearly unusable for humans to read and edit by hand2016-04-07