Topic on Talk:Requests for comment/Reduce math rendering preferences

So it looks like this has been rolled out for version 1.19. The HTML is possible option has been dropped but the fixing baselines in PNG output has not. This means that a lot of expression like <math>x^2</math> will render too low in the page $x^2$. Previously simple expressions like this would have been rendered in HTML mode which would have got the base-lines right, so we have ended up in an overall drop in quality.--Salix alba (talk) 17:04, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Agree. The 'HTML if simple' options should have been retained.

See also rev:104498#c30475 and bugzilla:31406#c10.