Adding a copy of MathJax

[pkra]

I've tried to add a (slim) copy of MathJax, but I don't understand chrome extensions well enough to make it work.

There's a branch in my fork at https://github.com/pkra/wiki-mathjax/tree/add_mathjax which contains a copy (as well as the right configuration from Wikipedia). I tried to follow http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest/web_accessible_resources.html (and temporarily hard-coded the extension ID). Still, Chrome complains that MathJax.js is not in the manifest. Perhaps you have an idea.

[bgromov]

Peter, thanks for tackling this problem. I've tried it myself few days ago, without success though. However with the help of your code it finally works.

The only issue is that web_accessible_resources should be _outside_ of content_scripts section in manifest.json. Also wildcards are allowed for it, so adding

"web_accessible_resources": ["mathjax/*"],

is sufficient to make everything work.

PS. This extension is my very first experience actually, so it took me quite some time to find the problem.

[bgromov]

There is also a convenience function chrome.extension.getURL() to convert relative extension paths. So instead of hardcoding the extension's ID into URL, we can use something like

chrome.extension.getURL('mathjax/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_HTML')

[pkra]

Ah! That's what I missed! Great -- looking forward to giving it another go.

[pkra]

I've just realized that we'll need to workaround MathJax#256. I'll check with the devs if we can provide a patch for chrome extensions.