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{{Short description|Defunct JavaScript library}}
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{{Infobox software
 | name                   = jsMath
 | developer              = Davide P. Cervone and others
 | latest_release_version = 3.6e
 | operating_system       = [[Cross-platform]]
 | programming language   = [[JavaScript]]
 | genre                  = [[Software library]]
 | license                = [[Apache License]]
 | website                = {{URL|http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/}}
 | discontinued           = yes
}}
'''jsMath''' was a [[JavaScript]] [[library (computing)|library]] for displaying [[mathematics]] in [[web browser|browsers]] in a [[cross-platform]] way. It was [[free software]] released under the [[Apache License]].

Produced by [[Union College]] Professor, Davide P. Cervone in 2004,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Cervone |first=Davide |date=February 2012 |title=Math Jax: A Platform for Mathematics on the Web |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201202/rtx120200312p.pdf |journal=[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society]] |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=312-316}}</ref> jsMath was built as a cross-platform solution to add mathematical equations in standard [[TeX]] notation to [[HTML]] pages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=jsMath (Authors): Overview of jsMath |url=https://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/authors/overview.html |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.math.union.edu}}</ref> As an alternative to [[MathML]], jsMath was built to support different browsers on [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Macintosh OS X]], and [[Linux]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=jsMath: jsMath Home Page |url=https://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.math.union.edu}}</ref>

While not officially discontinued, jsMath has not been updated since Version 3.6e on March 21st, 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=jsMath: Changes in Recent Versions of jsMath |url=https://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/changes.html |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.math.union.edu}}</ref>

jsMath was succeeded by [[MathJax]],<ref>{{cite web |url= http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/upgrading/jsMath.html |title= Converting to MathJax from jsMath |access-date= 2017-08-04 |archive-date= 2017-08-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170804215541/http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/upgrading/jsMath.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> another program that Cervone would contribute to.<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==
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* [[MathJax]]
* [[TeX]] and [[LaTeX]], from which jsMath inherits its syntax and layout algorithms
* [[MathML]], a [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] standard enabling direct math rendering in the browser, using an [[XML]] syntax
* [[ASCIIMathML]], a client-side library for writing MathML in a subset of [[LaTeX]] math syntax
* [[Google Chart API]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/}}
* {{SourceForge|jsmath|jsMath}}

[[Category:Free mathematics software]]
[[Category:Free TeX software]]
[[Category:JavaScript libraries]]
[[Category:Software using the Apache license]]

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