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:::::::::::::: We don't know that the behaviour is OS-specific. It does, however, depend on whether a given browser processes MathML directly (not a standard technology, and only supported within browser companies by volunteer-work, according to Wikipedia) or uses the more reliable fall-back of displaying a graphic file. On OS X for example, Firefox is using MathML to get a formula onto the screen, whereas Chrome and Safari take the route of displaying the fall-back graphic file, but are prevented from doing so by the unparseable HTML code which we have been serving up with increasing regularity, as the missing semi-colon spreads doggedly through our Task pages.
:::::::::::::: We don't know that the behaviour is OS-specific. It does, however, depend on whether a given browser processes MathML directly (not a standard technology, and only supported within browser companies by volunteer-work, according to Wikipedia) or uses the more reliable fall-back of displaying a graphic file. On OS X for example, Firefox is using MathML to get a formula onto the screen, whereas Chrome and Safari take the route of displaying the fall-back graphic file, but are prevented from doing so by the unparseable HTML code which we have been serving up with increasing regularity, as the missing semi-colon spreads doggedly through our Task pages.
:::::::::::::: Syntactically incorrect HTML is certainly a bug from a browsers point of view, but we may find that the authors of the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math throw up their hands and ask us why on earth we thought that they supported the insertion of redundant white space literals around our Latex expressions :-) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 05:26, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
:::::::::::::: Syntactically incorrect HTML is certainly a bug from a browsers point of view, but we may find that the authors of the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math throw up their hands and ask us why on earth we thought that they supported the insertion of redundant white space literals around our Latex expressions :-) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 05:26, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
::::::::::::::: "hell's bells I didn't even know there was a pre-processor" is an entirely understandable defence from our end, but It may feel slightly galling to them ... [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 05:36, 17 September 2016 (UTC)