Apologies for those of you seeing this for a second time. I've
received no response on matplotlib-users, so I'm turning to the
experts.

In one message, I wrote:

    I'm trying to use the webagg backend for the first time, and seem to
    be bumping into a common problem - nothing appears. The first time I
    tried, I got a complaint that tornado was missing, so I installed it.
    After that, I get to try plotting. Here's my example:

    >>> import matplotlib
    >>> matplotlib.use('webagg')
    >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    >>> plt.plot(range(10))
    [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x2f56690>]
    >>> plt.show()
    Created new window in existing browser session.
    Press Ctrl+C to stop server
    ^CServer stopped

    When I execute plt.show(), a new tab opens in my browser (Chrome, on
    Linux) with this URL: http://127.0.0.1:8988. That page has a single
    link (text: "Figure 1"). If I click that link, I get this URL:
    http://127.0.0.1:8988/1, but nothing appears. The page source contains
    a bunch of JavaScript references. For instance:

    <script src="/_static/jquery/js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
    <script src="/_static/jquery/js/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
    <script src="/_static/mpl.js"></script>
    <script src="/1/mpl_interface.js"></script>

    I see those JavaScript files at appropriate places in the
    .../backends/web_backend directory. What am I missing?

then followed that up with a bit more information:

    I tried this at home on my Mac. Tornado was already installed, so I
    updated it to 3.2.1, and ran a Matplotlib app I have which allows me
    to set the backend on the command line. I get the exact same behavior
    as at work on my Linux desktop. I get a page at 127.0.0:8988 with a
    "Figure 1" link. Clicking that takes me to 127.0.0.1:8988/1, which is
    a blank page.

    Chrome is my default web browser on both Linux and the Mac. I manually
    visited the page from both Firefox and Safari, clicked the link,
    and... nothing. The same behavior as on Chrome.

    Then I had the bright idea to look at the JavaScript console. It shows
    this error message:

      Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token &

    Clicking that error took me to this line:

    var fig = new figure(&#39;1&#39;, websocket_url_prefix);

    Are those entities supposed to be '1'? What bit of code generates
    that JavaScript?

Can someone provide a bit of direction? I can't find the code that
generates the above snippet of JavaScript, but Chrome, at least,
doesn't like it.

Thx,

Skip

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