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We try to test in lots of different environments, so it should work reasonably in most environments.

We try to test in lots of different environments, so it should work reasonably in most environments. To get the speed we wanted, we had to ditch much older browsers (we don't support IE 7 and earlier), and we only render to HTML/CSS, not things like MathML. However, we're so far very happy with the look of the math in the environments we've tested. KaTeX works great in a headless environment. You can even do server side rendering if you want a browserless environment which can serve up straight HTML with no JS. Both KaTeX and MathJax's biggest slowdown is the font loading. However, since KaTeX's CSS can be included manually (instead of letting MathJax put it in the DOM after load) it should load a little faster. Also, looks like your use cases are similar to ours at Khan Academy! We've been struggling with MathJax on slow computers and iPads for a while, which is why we made this. Let me know if you want more info!

Posted by xymostech on Sep 15, 2014, 7:28 PM

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We try to test in lots of different environments, so it should work reasonably in most environments.

xymostechSep 15, 2014, 7:28 PM

We try to test in lots of different environments, so it should work reasonably in most environments. To get the speed we wanted, we had to ditch much older browsers (we don't support IE 7 and earlier), and we only render to HTML/CSS, not things like MathML. However, we're so far very happy with the look of the math in the environments we've tested. KaTeX works great in a headless environment. You can even do server side rendering if you want a browserless environment which can serve up straight HTML with no JS. Both KaTeX and MathJax's biggest slowdown is the font loading. However, since KaTeX's CSS can be included manually (instead of letting MathJax put it in the DOM after load) it should load a little faster. Also, looks like your use cases are similar to ours at Khan Academy! We've been struggling with MathJax on slow computers and iPads for a while, which is why we made this. Let me know if you want more info!

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