Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Reduce math rendering preferences/Default setting

IMHO, the default setting should encourage authors to use the -tags whenever they typeset math:   is a standardized way to typeset math (as opposed to HTML where you could write the same as   or using a styled   tag etc.) and thus easily machine-readable, i.e. can be automatically adapted to a new rendering method, if ever implemented. Even now, many authors avoid using the  tag even for simple formulas due to the previously stated $$\text{ obvious problems with inline PNG rendering}\,$$. Making PNG rendering the default setting would make things worse. I'd suggest you either resolve the baseline/size problems prior to making this change or boost a promising alternative such as mathJax.