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HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

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262 points el3ctron | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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percentcer ◴[06 Dec 25 20:06 UTC] No.46176216[source]▶
Dumb question but what stops browsers from rendering TeX directly (aside from the work to implement it)? I assume it's more than just the rendering
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1. bo1024 ◴[06 Dec 25 20:17 UTC] No.46176297[source]▶
You mean a display engine that works like an HTML renderer, except starting from TeX source instead of HTML source? I think you could get something that mostly works, but it would be a pain and at the end you wouldn't have CSS or javascript, so I don't think browser makers are interested.