alt Hacker NewsDumb 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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pwdisswordfishy • yesterday at 8:11 PM
For starters, TeX is Turing-complete, and the tokenizer is arbitrarily reprogrammable at runtime.
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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.