Talk:Superellipse

Formulae now invisible on standard OS X browsers

May need tidying up to achieve formula visibility on the OS X platform. Problems may include flanking of LateX expressions with redundant white space inside <math> tags Hout (talk) 13:29, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Not all OSX browsers, so far I have only seen the problem with Safari and Chrome. This is not limited to math markup, though - I have been seeing many many images fail to load under Safari. Perhaps we should be recommending that OSX users switch to Firefox? --Rdm (talk) 13:34, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

I don't think so - the problem is new and quickly fixed - pruning back the newly-introduced redundant spaces will restore visibility on the major browsers on that platform. If we do want to understand the etiology, then we probably need to look at the Latex -> HTML stage of the wiki software. But the experimental result is already clear. Adding that space adds nothing for the users, but does prevent significant numbers from seeing the formulae. Hout (talk) 13:42, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Then perhaps we are seeing different problems, or different aspects of the problem, at least. Trimming those spaces does nothing for me, and I have been seeing blanks for math markup for months. --Rdm (talk) 14:31, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Formula visibility can be consistently toggled here by introducing and removing a leading or terminating space, before or after the Latex expression, in a <math> tag:

<math>Latex</math> ⇄ <math> Latex </math>

(Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit), Safari Version 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.8)) Hout (talk) 14:45, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

I tried that on a preview of this Superellipse page and I could not see the rendered math even with no spaces whatsoever in the math markup. But if it makes you happy, go delete some of those spaces... --Rdm (talk) 14:49, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Restoring the formula code to the pre June 4 version has restored its visibility here. Are you seeing the same ? Hout (talk) 15:19, 16 September 2016 (UTC)