In Chrome, it looks basically like normally rendered LaTeX

Blech! That was what I was visualizing when I made the comment above.

In Chrome, it looks like this

Of course, this doesn't look great because of the broken symbols (on the other hand, some other symbols on that page work in Chrome but not Firefox), but the text is harmonious. I can't quite put my finger on what aspect of it annoys me so much, but I find the Firefox style very unpleasant, and the Chrome one not too bad (again, broken symbols aside).

Font being rendered: STIXGeneral
font-size: 16px

whilst for text:

Font being rendered: Verdana
font-size: 16px

I suspect that the fonts would look more jarring if it jumped from a sans-serif to a serif font just to display a particular symbol which wasn't available in the sans-serif font, so as STIX is the most comprehensive font, it's best to use that for maths throughout. Personally, I like having a clear distinction between maths and text.

Of course, one of the beauties of MathML is that it can be restyled by the user with almost no difficulty. With firefox, the Stylish extension makes it really easy to impose your own styles over the top of those that we suggest. And that's all that we do! We suggest a particular rendering. That, together with hyperlinking, form the basis of why XML-based documents are so great.

Ben, lots of things have changed and without knowing when you're comparing with it's hard to know exactly what it was that caused the change of view. If it looks very like MO, it may be that you're using a backwards browser on a broken operating system and so are seeing the maths on the nLab through the lens of MathJaX!

I've gone on at length in various places as to why MathML is the Right Way; here is what I wrote about this at tex.SX.

Speculation that it will become the standard way to show math on the web.

I sincerely hope not! MathJaX is great at what it does, but it is not the right way to put maths on the web. The best way at the moment is MathML. MathJaX is a stop-gap until everyone gets a MathML-enabled browser.

For those of us not fortunate enough to be at Berkeley, please post us a mini-proceedings!

I'm also curious about the meet-up. How did it go? How was the turnout?

I'm enjoying the sun and surf and geometric quantization in Hahei, and eager for news from the JMM.

Also, I made some MO stickers (which are way cooler than flyers). Be sure to get some from me if you see me.

@Scott: drat, no question prompt. I've already printed everything and I'm jumping on the BART shortly. Oh well.

on the instructions sheet seems hard to read -- try changing the font or line spacing of the title? The questions sheet should have a "Question:" prompt after the Name____ prompt.

Got a math question you think another mathematician might know the answer to?

Post it here on one of these small sheets of paper. Include your name if you like. Got an answer to one of these questions? Post it under the question.

Somebody will periodically post these questions to mathoverflow.net so that mathematicians who couldn't make it to the Joint Meetings can see what you're thinking about (and try to answer your question). Better yet, you could post your question there yourself. If you do, fill in the question number so that other people interested in the same question know where to look for responses (you don't need to write the whole URL, just the question immediately after http://mathoverflow.net/questions/).

I'll print out the quarter-sheet question pages and the instructions on Tuesday (to bring with me Wednesday morning). If you think of some suggestions for modifications before then, post them here.

I'll also pick some questions from the unanswered list Tuesday night and post them as "seed" questions.

Should it also have some sort of a title?

Buca Di Beppo (yelp page) is at 855 Howard St. (basically right across the street from Moscone center west). I look forward to seeing you there. Have a look at their dinner menu if you like. Note that their "small" portions are meant to serve up to 3 people and their "large" portions are meant to serve up to 6 people, so you'll have to make a few friends with similar gustatory preferences, or be a glutton.

Once I know something about the layout of the Moscone center, I'll post a location where we can meet up (around 6:15) and walk to the restaurant as a group. Of course, you're welcome to just meet us there.

@David: That's a fantastic idea! I should probably email the organizers about it. Are they more likely to say "we'd better not catch you doing that" (in which case we should just do it rather than emailing them) or "sure, you can use this space, and we even have a spare corkboard you can use" (at least without the bit about the spare corkboard)?

• correction: expertsexchange.com didn't disappear but rather changed the domain name to include hyphen

• I'll bring a backpack full of MO t-shirts like the one I'm wearing in my profile picture.
• We can arrange to get together at a bar or restaurant one evening. I think all the actual events will be happening at the Moscone Center, so we should pick some place nearby. Any preferences for where to go or when to do it?
• I can print up some flyers to the effect of "[MO logo].net, a place for mathematicians to ask and answer questions". Is there anything else that should go on an MO flyer? Will there actually be any place to put up flyers? Would it be better if instead of flyers they were (roughly) 2"×4" scraps of paper for easy dissemination?

Any suggestions for other things to do? Once we figure out what we're doing, I'll post a system message at the top of the site to the effect of, "Coming to the Joint Meetings? Do X with us!"