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I tried that last night but it broke IE9. I have now added a conditional. Can anyone report if IE8 is better now?

Well I tried relaxing all the security onIE8, but it has made no discernable difference.
 
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I have a similar problem with Safari 4.1.3 … nothing happens for some time, then an error message appears, something like "Safari is no longer responding because of a script, do you wish to stop the script?".

I click "Stop", and the problem stops (but the latex doesn't load).

This only happens occasionally, and for no apparent reason.
 
Studiot said:
Well I tried relaxing all the security onIE8, but it has made no discernable difference.
Can you upgrade to IE9? I know that some people aren't allowed to do this by their IT departments (e.g. DaleSpam), but if no one is stopping you... And FF4 is an even better option in my opinion.

Obviously, Greg will do what he can to get it to work with IE8, but if you want it to work for you before he finds the solution...
 
tiny-tim said:
I have a similar problem with Safari 4.1.3 … nothing happens for some time, then an error message appears, something like "Safari is no longer responding because of a script, do you wish to stop the script?".

I click "Stop", and the problem stops (but the latex doesn't load).

This only happens occasionally, and for no apparent reason.
I've occasionally had the same thing happen on Firefox. It's been rare enough - maybe once or twice in total on PF - that I haven't considered it a serious problem; I just stop the script, reload the page, and things are fine.
 
Can you upgrade to IE9?

Thank you for the interest.

IE9 and above are not available for Windows XP.

And, of course it is not possible to put Vista or 7 onto a Dell GX270.

There are more copies of IE8 installed in the world than any other browser, or I think any other two browsers put together.


Yes I tested Chrome and Fox tonight on a different XP computer and both worked, albeit slowly. IE8 didn't render the Tex on that pc though.
 
Studiot said:
There are more copies of IE8 installed in the world than any other browser, or I think any other two browsers put together.

Logs of my sites don't support the second part - 18.6% of my visitors use IE8, 21.4% use FireFox 3.x or 4.x.
 
Logs of my sites don't support the second part - 18.6% of my visitors use IE8, 21.4% use FireFox 3.x or 4.x.

I'm not at all suprised. But that's a bit like asking the % of 2 wheel drive vehicles at a Landrover convention. Fox, et all are specialist niche browsers.

Most of my customers fall into two groups.

Those that can just about turn their pc on. I know it's not scientific but I doubt that more than 1 in 20 of these has something other than IE on the pc.

Those that are constrained by their IT department to IE, regardless of their computer skills.
 
Studiot said:
Thank you, vela for offering a glimmer of hope.

The (error) messages in my browser clearly indicate that the browser is being redirected to MathJax .org to obtain some file but is unable to succeed.
I think I saw the same thing. The error message said "access denied" for some JavaScript file. IE8 worked for a while, then I got that message for a while, and then it started working again. I don't remember doing anything to break it or fix it.

Sometimes it seems like IE8 isn't working, but it actually is. It's just painfully slow.

If you're stuck on XP, switching to Firefox may be your best solution for now.
 
Thank you Vela for your interest.

One of my concerns is the provenance of MathJax.
If they were really as good as sliced bread then their Latex processor should not cause this with IE8.
On the other hand, I trust PF.
But I am now being asked to hand off script control of my pc to another site I had never even heard of until a couple of weeks ago.
So do I trust Mathjax?
Well I perhaps you have heard of Viewpoint spyware, as installed with and by AOL?
So my answer is I don't yet know.
I do know, however, that my original reason for into getting Latex (via MathType) still works as before.
This was for another teaching site, based in Toronto - Allaboutcircuits.
 
Preparing a site that looks OK in every browser, even if you are using just HTML and CSS is a real PITA. When it needs Java Script it becomes almost impossible.
 
Studiot said:
Thank you Vela for your interest.

One of my concerns is the provenance of MathJax.
If they were really as good as sliced bread then their Latex processor should not cause this with IE8.
On the other hand, I trust PF.
But I am now being asked to hand off script control of my pc to another site I had never even heard of until a couple of weeks ago.
So do I trust Mathjax?
Well I perhaps you have heard of Viewpoint spyware, as installed with and by AOL?
So my answer is I don't yet know.
I do know, however, that my original reason for into getting Latex (via MathType) still works as before.
This was for another teaching site, based in Toronto - Allaboutcircuits.

That's a good point, and one that concerns me also. I use Firefox 4 with NoScript, and I only allow scripts for sites that I trust.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
I tried that last night but it broke IE9. I have now added a conditional. Can anyone report if IE8 is better now?
I just tried IE8, and it's still really slow. It took almost 2 minutes to finish processing this page. Firefox and Safari process the same page in about a second or less.EDIT: It appears IE8 is, simply, inherently slow compared to other browsers when it comes to JavaScript performance. I ran the SunSpider benchmarks to compare IE8 and Firefox 4.0.1, both on XP. IE8 took about 5900 ms to complete the tests while Firefox took only 370 ms. I wonder if MathJax happens to use those JavaScript functions IE8 just really sucks at.

http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9.1/sunspider-0.9.1/driver.html
 
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fluidistic said:
This probably mean latex will be changed once again and this will be sad as it never looked so beautiful to me. :)

No MathJax is the future. With new developments and the steady pace of browser upgrades we should be able to cover almost all visitors in the near future.
 
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Fredrik said:
If javascript is disabled in your browser, you will see the source code instead of an image. This page will tell you if you have javascript enabled, and how to enable it if you don't:

http://www.iatn.net/help/javascript/

I've also requested to the devs that they have some sort of detection and alert the user if JS is off.
 
Studiot said:
But I am now being asked to hand off script control of my pc to another site I had never even heard of until a couple of weeks ago.
Not really, the script can't control your computer entirely, it can only do certain things within your web browser. Of course that is something one could be validly concerned about, but it's a bit easier to control than the common computer virus.

In any case, MathJax is no different from all the other external Javascript libraries that most websites use, like jQuery, or YUI (which PF uses). If you haven't been concerned about handing off control of your computer to Yahoo every time you visit PF, then you shouldn't worry about MathJax. (FWIW many people have looked into MathJax closely enough to verify that it doesn't do anything nefarious - it is open-source, after all.)
 
Thank you Fredrik for that link, most useful.

My IE8 passed with flying colours.

But I still can't see the NewTex.

:cry:
 

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Wouldn't adding something like:
Code: 
<noscript>
Your browser appears to have
JavaScript functionality disabled.
To view mathematics on Physics Forums,
please enable JavaScript.
</noscript>
work?
 
Studiot said:
My IE8 passed with flying colours.

But I still can't see the NewTex.

do any errors pop up? i think if there are js errors there is an icon on the bottom left that triggers?
 
Greg, you can see the bottom left of the java test page shows "done" in my pic.

I am conscious of storage space so please feel free to delete this attachment when it has served its purpose (or tell me how)

On every PF page, including the 'manage attachments' popup, I get the yellow triangle and either error on page or sometimes done, just as ion the pics I posted in the other thread.

Thanks for looking.

Edit: the error details on this page for instance are:


Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)
Timestamp: Mon, 23 May 2011 19:12:12 UTC


Message: Access is denied.

Line: 45
Char: 495
Code: 0
URI: http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/config/TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML.js


Message: Expected identifier, string or number
Line: 1
Char: 6
Code: 0
URI: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3318128&posted=1#post3318128
 
Can someone show me a TeX on the forums for a double closed integral?

I tried \ooiint (yeah I know lol) and it didn't work
 
flyingpig said:
Can someone show me a TeX on the forums for a double closed integral?

I tried \ooiint (yeah I know lol) and it didn't work

If I understand the comprehensive LaTeX symbol list correctly, you can use \oiint if you have loaded the wasysym package. PF doesn't seem to include that package (it's not one you need very often), but if you're writing a LaTeX document, you can include it there.

Edit: D'oh.
 
micromass said:
Edit: it seems PF doesn't have the right packages for it. But there are lots of packages that let you do this. See the link above, page 26 onwards...

remember we are using mathjax :)
 
Here's another one that works: \iint\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\bigcirc \ f(x,y)dxdy

[tex]\iint\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\bigcirc \ f(x,y)dxdy[/tex]
 
Let's see

[tex]\iint\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\bigcirc \[/tex]
 
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flyingpig said:
Let's see

[tex]\iint\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!\!bigcirc \[/tex]

You need \bigcirc, not bigcirc...

I don't know how TeX-savy you are, but \! is a negative space, it moves the cursor to the left. This allows you to type over other symbols or closer to previous symbols. There are better ways to do this, but MathJax will probably not allow this...
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
I tried that last night but it broke IE9. I have now added a conditional. Can anyone report if IE8 is better now?
The META tag inside the conditional comment is broken because you have a line break between http- and equiv, but fixing that, unfortunately, doesn't do any good. [strike]When IE8 is emulating IE7, it doesn't like the inline configuration script for MathJax. That's easy enough to fix by using a configuration file instead.[/strike] The bigger problem is that when the META tag is inside the conditional comment, you don't get the performance gain for some reason. Simply taking the META statement out of the conditional comment results in the page rendering much more quickly.

So maybe you can fix it by using EmulateIE7 as the default and then telling IE9 to switch back to IE9 mode:
Code: 
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">  
<!--[if IE 9]>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=IE9">
<![endif]-->
I don't have IE9 here, so I can't test it.

EDIT: Didn't notice I had compatibility mode on. I think that was causing IE8 to choke on the inline configuration.

EDIT 2: Hmm, seems IE8 sometimes doesn't like the inline configuration, and other times, it doesn't complain.
 
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