Comment on Ask HN: Why is WolframAlpha serving rendered text images instead of plain text?Comments−auston17yI don't know for sure - but my guess is mathematica outputs images?−Skeuomorph17yThis guess makes the most sense: to correctly display formulae. An example from another thread:http://imgur.com/gcymm.png−Oompa17yIt can, and it looks like they're making mathematica just render things as images, instead of parsing in text and then reformatting it as HTML.
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I don't know for sure - but my guess is mathematica outputs images?
This guess makes the most sense: to correctly display formulae. An example from another thread:
http://imgur.com/gcymm.png
It can, and it looks like they're making mathematica just render things as images, instead of parsing in text and then reformatting it as HTML.