Re: [O] Use CHTML mathjax backend by default

[Carlos Pita]

Also, they said there:

> I think you'll find that CommonHTML is faster at rendering the math

So:

1. Recommended for newer mathjax versions.
2. Fixed my problem with web fonts.
3. Faster.

It seems like a Pareto improvement to me.

Re: [O] Use CHTML mathjax backend by default

[Carlos Pita]

TL;DR about the specific problem I was having with HTML-CSS:

> both HTML-CSS and CommonHTML use web fonts. But CommonHTML doesn't try to 
> detect their presence, while HTML-CSS does, and it is that detection that is 
> probably going wrong for some reason (I did say it was fragile). HTML-CSS 
> needed to wait for the fonts to arrive because (in the old days before 
> browsers were more consistent with each other), MathJax had to measure the 
> actual displayed subexpressions in order to determine their size, and that 
> meant the font had to be the right one. CommonHTML doesn't have to do that 
> because modern browsers are more consistent about their layout (thanks to 
> better standards and better adherence to them).

[O] Use CHTML mathjax backend by default

[Carlos Pita]

Hi all,

I was having some problems with the mathjax HTML-CSS backend and I
found out that the CHTML backend is currently the preferred one. See
details at https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/2132 and
http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/output.html. Changing the backend to
CHTML fixed my issue.

Wouldn't be time to update the default mathjax version to 2.7.1 (the
current one) and setting the backend to CHTML?

Best regards
--
Carlos