On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:33 PM, william ratcliff <william.ratcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a student here trying to make a webapp for data reduction. To add > interactivity, we've been using the FLOT package, and may later consider > protovis. We had thought about making a javascript backend for MPL, but to > just get something running, we went with FLOT for the time being...We're > using EXTJS as the web framework (it's a bit heavy, but has a rich widget > toolkit and documentation). We use Django on the backend and Orbited to > deal with some communications between the browser and the server (for > example if we get new data from an instrument and want to update it on the > server and update plots that are viewing that data..). Over the next couple > of weeks (with the arrival of another student), we will be working more with > the plotting aspect of the project (adding legends, zooming, etc). Also, > for other parts of the app, we're just using the HTML5 canvas...I'd be happy > to work on making the plotting addons as generic as possible so they can be > used outside of our problem domain. What I'm not sure is whether one wants > to truly use MPL as a backend, or rather to use the MPL philosophy of a > javascript package.
If anyone is interested in working on an html5 backend, we have a prototype here thanks to a GSOC applicant from last year http://bitbucket.org/sanxiyn/matplotlib-canvas/ JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
