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== TO DO: ==
'''It's a total show-stopper: Get rid of the third-party equation-running services.'''
=== Example error message when editing equations ===
<big><nowiki>Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E=mc^2}</nowiki></big>

* <tt>[https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/ "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/"]</tt> Huh? What's that for?


Example workaround code is here: <big>'''[[Pure HTML Math]]'''</big> for equations without 3rd-party SaaS or equation-running malware. Please take a look and experiment yourself.


Mathjax and Mathoid or Restbase or related services or funky MathML browser plugins are notorious for containing malicious code and spyware, and hidden calls to third party API services.

Math equations cannot be made up “beautiful” or spread “all over the web” or ripped off or dynamically rendered on other people’s websites. Math equations are highly technical, and they need to be left alone on people's websites, precisely as is, without any extraneous garbage dependencies or third party API services or pop-ups or dollar-sign script-runners or other javascript nonsense called in to dynamically render or display them.

The math jerks and the malicious software math equation web APIs gotta go. Stop running off with all the math equations out the back door!

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* https://www.mysecuritysign.com/funny-hippity-hoppity-get-off-my-property-frog-sign/sku-s2-5588
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