This story is about clean, beautiful, lean, true LaTeX integrated in your HTML
Once upon a time I decided to write math in websites, but nothing out there (MathML or equivalents) could get it right as LaTeX in printing out exactly what I meant. Cropping/Uploading each picture to the website by hand, couldn't be the best option, to get true LaTeX code on the web! So I dreamt of a <latex> html tag...
Where I begun
First of all I found out CLSI, the Common Latex Server Interface, a project on google code, no more maintained, full of options but too tricky/buggy. It just wasn't what I was looking for, a quick, I needed snappy modern open platform. (The could be said about the ruby on rails's ScribTex LaTeX server)
The idea
I was going to give up when I found on github the clsipy project by pacbard(@pacbard) which looked more like what I needed! It could be installed easilly for free knowing a very litte about python and unix, it was meant to run on a free small OpenShift gear so that even a newbie can set up easilly his own compiling server without swearing too much and learning some interesting things. So I started coding...
What I came up with
Now I can use the <latex> code in my html and it works pretty well, I'm pretty much happy with it.
The two repos clsipy fork on which I developed the "display method" and PLATECH which permits.
What I'm really happy about is that the setup is really simple. Get an openshift free accound, create a python app that will become your compiling app, get the clsypy git on the python app, install your custom latex on the compiler app server, now dedicate a folder on your "client server" (e.g. your webpage) to the index.php of PLATECH and setup the php code to point to the compiler server, now include the code to get the <latex> tag working, point it to the index.php folder and you are done! :) It's less than one hour work, then you will compile and embed LaTeX forever!
Credits
Developed by Anze(@Anze-). And many thanks to pacbard(@pacbard), a wonderful person who helped me a lot.