This might be interesting as a way to get a portable browser-based/Java enabled Axiom front end:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3676226 Java would significantly improve our ability to do system independent graphics within a web page. I've been looking into the new <canvas> tag in more detail but this might make it a dead path. In general, after 2 years of professional use, I've grown to hate Java. However, javascript is also painful. The devil will certainly be in the details. There is, as usual, a lack of detail. At the moment the plan is to re-use the current design as much as possible as a target design. We could use the current hyperdoc and graphics interfaces as API definitions which would mean that sman could talk directly to web-based code or use hyperdoc/view2D/view3D. This would significantly lower the redesign costs. In order to use the same algorithms it would be sufficient to create a set of java classes that mimic the subset of X11 calls we currently use. This might be easier with the Java graphics API than with the javascript/canvas tag combo. There is no such thing as a simple job. Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
