[Rivet] rivet-mkhtml output requires network access

[Andy Buckley]

On 03/11/15 21:36, David Grellscheid wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On 03/11/2015 21:29, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Sounds good to me. David G, could you do the necessary fiddling? ;-)
>
> Sorry, not unless we've got a really good use case. There's just no
> proportion here right now. By default it's far too large (50 MB), and
> the effort spent on figuring out what can be safely left out of the
> shipped build is completely wasted since 99% of users have fast
> connections anyway. I would just optionally disable the <script> tag as
> a flag on the python script.

Also fine! I agree a huge bundling like that is unworkable.

Is MathJax intelligent enough to time out immediately if you set the 
browser in offline mode? (or, even better and I think the case in 
sufficiently friendly OSes, for that to *automatically* happen when 
there's no network connection.) It seems to me that whether or not 
MathJax should be used depends on the viewer rather than the generator 
of the HTML output. Some hints on how to detect internet: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/189430/detect-that-the-internet-connection-is-offline 
  Or maybe the timeout period can just be reduced?

Andy

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Dr Andy Buckley, Lecturer / Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow