User talk:Gerard Schildberger: Difference between revisions
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Hi Gerard, as it has emerged that the loss of formula visibility has not been platform-specific, and, as you mentioned that you did have one of the majority-type browsers installed (Internet Explorer), as well as one of the minority-type (FireFox), you should be able to fix your edits to restore formula visibility by testing their effects in IE.
The list of tasks in which formula visibility still needs to be restored is below. You will find that on the discussion page of each affected task I have indicated the exact time and day of the edit which removed visibility. Not all of those are your edits, but I think you may find that about 50 of them are
:'''The underlying problem''' is that current browsers use two different approaches to displaying formulae, and the WikiMedia generator has to generate separate code for each.
:It will never be safe or prudent to make formula edits in one class of browser without checking their real effects in the other class. Firefox is particularly ill-suited to being the main vehicle of formula edits, as it is in the minority class which uses MathML and depends on local fonts. Better to edit formulae mainly with one of the majority class (Chrome, IE/Edge, Safari etc. which display the server-side graphic file), and then check the results in Firefox too [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 10:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ackermann_function
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