Use MathJax for the html docs

[ev-br]

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[rgommers]

Can you summarize why using MathJax is a good thing?

[ev-br]

Uhm, well... it just makes maths look cleaner and nicer and more modern overall so to speak.
I think it's close to a de facto standard for typesetting math in browser, used by mathoverflow, APS journals, Elsevier, arXiv.org etc.

A downside to using it is that html docs need a working internet connection [or maybe you can download the whole javascript CDN somehow]. But I'd argue that offline usage is precisely what pdf docs are for.

BTW here's the start of the discussion (filed to a wrong tracker, closed) scipy/scipy.org#50.

[josef-pkt]

Related aside: the two distribution files in the stats tutorial will be a heavy load on the browser and should be split up.

[rgommers]

Thanks. Requiring an internet connection for rendered LaTeX doesn't seem like an unreasonable restriction.

[rgommers]

OK, works well for me, so merging. Thanks @ev-br

[rgommers]

@josef-pkt indeed those files should be split. The continuous one took 5 seconds on my laptop to finish rendering the math.

[rgommers]

I'll add a new issue.

[ev-br]

Wow Ralf, your laptop is fast :-).
As much as I hate the whole "you're always online" thing, I still think using png images for maths is simply not right.

[WarrenWeckesser]

FYI: http://khan.github.io/KaTeX/
Comments on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320439