CTO wrote:
On May 30, 4:12 am, Ken Seehart <k...@seehart.com> wrote:
A couple years ago I stumbled upon an interesting technology but I can't
seem to find it, and I can remember what it is called. Unfortunately
this makes it difficult to search for. I am am aware of several partial
matches (items that meet a subset of the requirement listed below).
Does anyone know what does /all/ of the following?
1. Works on at least FF and IE on XP and Linux out of the box, probably
others
2. Does not require /any/ plugin download at all of any kind to view
(this disqualifies flash, svg, silverlight, java, and others)
3. If you go to the web page for the first time on a freshly installed
operating system, without admin privileges, you will see the
functionality listed below immediately, and with no downloaded plugins
and installers. (I apologize for the redundancy, but I want to
preemptively avoid a flood of non-applicable responses).
4. Graphics, including sprite animation
5. Dynamic response to mouse motion: dragging sprites for example
6. Programmable in Python, of course
Hints from what I can recall:
- Built from javascript as it's raw material under the hood (after all,
it can't very well be anything else given requirements 1,2,3)
- Seems quite magical since I didn't know the necessary graphical raw
materials existed in javascript
- I think it's based on Ajax, but I can't seem to find a relevant python
demo of it due to too much clutter in my google searches
Ken
Probably thinking of Pyjamas- <URL: http://pyjamas.sourceforge.net/>.
It lets you interact with canvas- <URL: http://www.blobsallad.se/>-
without writing any javascript.
Geremy Condra
Yeah, looks like pyjamas is probably it. Thanks.
OMG, http://www.blobsallad.se is way too cool, .but it's javascript, so
I'm assuming the idea is that it could have been done in python and
converted to javascript using pyjamas.
Anyway, I think I need to be more specific about the sprites:
7. Supports drawing semi-transparent bitmap sprites (preferably png)
Anyone happen to know where I can find an online example of animating
with sprites (within the constraints of 1-7 above)?
Thanks,
- Ken
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