Re: [matplotlib-devel] jsxgraph or flot backend (or interactive viewer for svg backend?)

On 12/15/11 8:03 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 11:36 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
>> On 12/7/11 10:27 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>> On 12/5/11 9:49 PM, Jason Grout wrote:
>>>> Has anyone ever worked on a backend that generates javascript code for
>>>> one of the javascript plotters out there (like jsxgraph or flot)?
>>>> Alternatively, I suppose we could generate an svg or html5 plot and then
>>>> accompany it with the javascript code to trace the function, etc.
>>> Someone has worked on a html5 back-end, It was jsut discussed a bit on
>>> the thread "Using the Agg renderer by itself"
>>>
>>> Here's a cut and paste:
>>>
>>> On 11/27/11 12:33 PM, Ludwig Schwardt wrote:
>>>     >
>>>     >    Ben is referring to mplh5canvas, available at
>>>     >    http://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas/. The main advantage of this
>>>     >    approach is interactive zooming of plots within the browser. If this is
>>>     >    not important to you, it will probably be faster to generate static PNGs
>>>     >    or SVGs.
>>>     >
>>>     >    The HTML5 backend should be easy to try out, as it is a pure Python
>>>     >    package with no onerous dependencies.
>>>     >
>> Michael Droettboom played with this a little at the Sage Days in March,
>> IIRC, and I seem to think he also whipped up an interactive demo using
>> svg plots.  Michael, do you remember what your conclusions were?
>>
> My conclusion was basically that the current crop of browsers are plenty
> fast and its generally feasible.  But rewriting all that Python code in
> Javascript ain't a small project ;)

So maybe pyjamas or pyjs might help?

http://pyjs.org/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/683462/best-way-to-integrate-python-and-javascript 
gives a few other python->javascript compilers.  I don't know if any are 
currently active, though.

I thought you also had some conclusion about using SVG instead of HTML5 
canvas...

Jason