On 07/06/2010 07:49 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:51 AM, william ratcliff > <william.ratcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I just tested it and it's very cool! It works fairly quickly locally. It >> seems to work for Safari 5 and Chrome beta. Firefox 3.6.3 is a no show. I >> haven't tried Opera. What I'm really curious about is what is the latency >> like over the actual internet, or under higher server loads (given the round >> tripping). For us, I'd have to try to get it to work for firefox (I think >> as a cross platform browser, it's fairly common, especially on linux systems >> like Fedora, it's what the user is most likely to have.). Thanks for >> sharing this! >> >> William >> >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Simon Ratcliffe<sratcli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Our HTML5 based matplotlib backend is now available at: >>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas/ >>> >>> There are some basic installation instructions and included examples >>> to get going. Keep in mind that the weakest link at this stage is >>> browser support. >>> >>> We recommend Chrome for the most hassle free experience. >>> >>> This is very much a beta release and has not seen action outside of >>> our internal testing, so we expect some teething troubles :) >>> >>> Please let us know what works for you, and what doesn't, and we will >>> try and fix things as they come up. >>> > This looks very exciting. I don't know how to install chrome on my > rhel5 without root access (I didn't find any binary and the source > build fails due to some missing dependencies) and I have FF3.6.6, but > I'll try to download some development binary of FF, so that it works. > I found a CentOS tarball of Chromium here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumPackages Which seems to work just fine on RHEL5. Just untar it and run "chrome-wrapper". You may want to read through the chrome-wrapper script first: it seems to contain some hardcoded paths specific to the packager's machine, so it's not exactly high quality -- but it seems to work well with the HTML5 backend. Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
