What is the best way to embed LaTeX in a webpage?

Question

I\'m not asking about converting a LaTeX document to html.

What I\'d like to be able to do is have some way to use LaTeX math commands in an html document, and have

Answer 1

Historically, rendering the LaTeX and extracting an image has been your best bet for cross-platform, cross-browser math stuff. More and more, MathML is becoming a reasonable alternative. Here's an online converter that will emit MathML from Tex markup, which you can then embed in your webpage. I know Gecko-based browsers like Firefox and Camino play nice with MathML, as does Opera. IE doesn't work out of the box, but there are plugins available (like this one).

Texvc is a great find! The vanilla HTML output should work well if you're mostly interested in superscripts/subscripts/italics/common symbols, but for more complex things, be aware that the most popular math-oriented sites out there (e.g. Wolfram) generate images, so there may be only so much you can do if you're interested in cross-browser compatibility :-(