[generationP]

This is from 2013, so the bet that "nobody will want to read [PDFs] in 5 years" can be considered failed. If anything, PDF has become the lingua franca of the academic web, crowding out even DjVU at the thing that DjVU was made for and PDF was not.

I have not been following the development of mathjax, pandoc, etc. carefully, so I'm wondering: Have the main issues been solved? By these I mean

(1) support for most popular packages,

(2) automatically breaking long outputs into small pages that don't overheat my laptop or crash my browser and yet reference each other properly,

(3) printability (without lines broken in half, senseless overflows and the likes) or cross-compilability with a regular PDF compiler?

I know the ar5iv project is getting closer and closer to (1) and (3), but is that available to regular users?

[roel_v]

But don't worry, 2024 is going to be the Year Of Math On The Web.

(I've been trying to do 'math on the web' (ish)) since 2002, and it's always sucked in some way; and all that time, images/pdf have Just Worked(TM). The emphasis in the OP on how much you'll have to report/chip in/fix is telling...)

[bowsamic]

The problem with DjVu is that its viewers suck, especially on macOS, which is very popular in modern academia

[bloaf]

And it is a shame. The current AI explosion is the poorer for it, due to the greater difficulty of extracting the text from PDFs.

[adastra22]

mathjax has come tremendously far, but not on the problems you mention :(