GNU bug report logs - #22293
25.0.50; EWW: Loses on some content on Wikipedia (especially science/math)

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Message #8 received at 22293 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: raman <raman <at> google.com>
Cc: 22293 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22293: 25.0.50;
 EWW: Loses on some content on Wikipedia (especially science/math)
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:30:58 +0100

raman <raman <at> google.com> writes:

> Compare the rendering of this page
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function
>
> in eww vs  the now ancient W3. I still get more content from W3 than I
> do with EWW -- likely because I get all of the alt text fo rthe math
> equations which Wikipedia helpfully gives me as LaTeX.

Hm.  If I look at the page in eww and in Firefox, they seem to contain
just about the same data (with different layout).  And all the equations
seem to have the LaTeX-like stuff as alt texts in eww, too, like:

\Gamma(t) = \int_0^\infty x^{t-1} e^{-x}\,dx

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