Re: behavior of @math with HTML output

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2022-10-14 21:11:19 -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2022-10-14 07:06:03 +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 12:40:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > >   * mathjax is not compatible with text browsers.
> > > Not a bug, working as designed.
> > 
> > Also broken design as there is no correct fallback for text browsers.
> > 
> > This is an important point for developers, in particular because
> > manuals may be on a remote machine accessed via ssh.
> 
> Arguably, this (having only a text terminal for reading the manual)
> is the use case for Info.

The user may want to choose the HTML version for various reasons.
  * Is there a way to follow web links (those declared with @url)
    with Info?
  * Is there a way to open different tabs with the Info reader?
    (FYI, w3m can, using the HTML version.)
  * Web browsers typically have bookmarks. This doesn't seem to be
    the case with the Info reader.

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