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07:25
@KyleKanos It works for pretty much everyone else - there must be something up with your configuration. We can try troubleshooting sometime.
@DavidZ when Kyle said that, I tried it and couldn't get it to work for me either. I'll spend some time trying to figure out why tomorrow.
ah, well then
I actually use the one from math.SE. It works fine for me. Maybe there's an important difference?
At any rate, we should have a working ChatJax and perhaps link to it from the room info.
I would like LaTeX notation to become standard here.
@DavidZ Looking though the javascript, it has a reference to chem: "extensions: ["mhchem.js"]"
Do you have a link to the Math.SE one handy?
Let me look it up
And yeah, having mathjax in chat would be very nice.
07:32
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A: Should chat have TeX support?

robjohnI will leave the original post for historical reference, but as mentioned in the Update below, all four bookmarks are located on this installation page. There are four bookmarks: start ChatJax installs MathJax and starts a loop that renders $\LaTeX$ as needed. This is intended for use in chat, ...

@DavidZ Bingo, working now. Very nice.
OK, so we can probably just standardize on the math version.
@KyleKanos try out this one and see how it works for you
room topic changed to The h Bar: General chat for Physics Stack Exchange (physics.stackexchange.com). We use [ChatJax](meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/1088/should-chat-have-tex-suppor‌​t/3297#3297) (no tags)
aw man, no markdown :(
room topic changed to The h Bar: General chat for Physics Stack Exchange (physics.stackexchange.com). For MathJax use meta.math.stackexchange.com/a/3297#3297 (no tags)
@DavidZ That still isn't showing up linked on the right side.
But of course copy and paste works.
I see a link...
Did you try refreshing the page?
@DavidZ Ah nope -- refresh linked it.
I wonder if there is any filtering on the link. Maybe you could stuff the javascript into the link so folks don't have to make a bookmark.
07:51
Bad idea IMO because people should know what they're going to get whenever they click a link that leads to anything other than another webpage.
Same reason you never link to a PDF file directly on arXiv
@DavidZ Good point.
Also because there are four scripts
and they're way too long to go in the room topic anyway.
It's probably limited to like a couple hundred characters or something
Although we could directly link to this page
@DavidZ I thought about that but it's probably better to link within the SE network and the Math meta post is more likely to be updated to reflect changes or improvements or fixes needed.
08:06
true
I'm somewhat surprised this hasn't hit the VTC review queue yet:
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Q: Physics the Why vs. How question?

JitterI've been told that a physicist never asks why and must always ask how. Is this true? Have all discoveries in physics been due to asking how? or have some been discovered by asking why?

Me too
I would probably vote to close if I could do so non-unilaterally
 
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09:25
@BrandonEnright javascript: links are XSS vulnerabilities on places that allow users to input them, so they won't add it here. It has the potential of taking over your chat account an making it do whatever the attacker wants by putting in the right javascript: link
So..the user has to voluntarily make it a bookmarklet, SE would never allow direct linking to javascript. Though there was a brief period of time when scripts were allowed in flags after the first rehaul.
 
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14:13
$F=ma$
@DavidZ: woohoo! That worked!

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