I'll take a look--but how do you handle interaction?  Does it end up having
to communicate back to the server?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:09 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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