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Harry Gindi comments on "Links work until the math is rendered" (4994)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:42:54 -0700

This doesn't happen in Opera (or firefox, but I haven't used it enough). I think it might be a problem with chrome.

Andrew Stacey comments on "Links work until the math is rendered" (4989)

Andrew Stacey — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:23:42 -0700

This wouldn't happen with MathML.

(Sorry, sorry, ... I'll go back in my cave now.)

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Links work until the math is rendered" (4948)

Anton Geraschenko — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:27:58 -0700

This is a problem with jsMath. For some reason, it creates container boxes for symbols that are too big sometimes. If you double click on the links, you'll see the source for the math, which tells you that something is up. If you try to select the links, you see something like this:

The boxes containing the symbols are "covering up" the links, so when you try to click on the links, your browser thinks you're clicking the symbols. Unfortunately, the only way I can think of the fix this is to edit the post so that the links appear further down (I've just done this). I haven't seen this problem with MathJax, so hopefully this won't be a problem after we make the switch. Sorry I don't have a better short-term solution.

Douglas Zare comments on "Links work until the math is rendered" (4938)

Douglas Zare — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:52:53 -0700

The links in this question http://mathoverflow.net/questions/22324/what-information-do-the-roots-of-the-generating-function-of-the-nontrivial-zeroes didn't work for me, so I edited the question and changed the html style links to the [][1] syntax. While I was editing the question, the preview did not work on the math, but I could click through the links I made. However, after the changes, I still can't click through the links except while the math is being rendered. If I reload the page, I have about 1 second to click the links.

I think the problem might be related to a long sequence of latex with no spaces. I see odd behavior in the preview when I break this up using spaces.

I'm using Chrome.