On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Jason Grout<[email protected]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Alfred >> Wassermann<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear William, >>> Tatsuyoshi Hamada from the Knoppix/Math project told me about >>> your wonderful projects Sage (in fact I have heard about it before) >>> and Sage notebook. >>> Do you think our project JSXGraph (http://jsxgraph.org) would be >>> interesting for you and we can cooperate in some way? >>> (JSXGraph does function plotting and Dynamic Geometry in JavaScript.) >>> >> >> Probably I've cc'd this respond to the sage-devel mailing list to see what >> the many other sage developers think: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel >> > > > This is very interesting! I've wondered if there was a nice solution to > integrate an interactive geometry environment, for example. > > Ondrej: would this be a nice interface to Sympy's geometry capabilities? > Does Sympy export to the "geonext" format. I've never heard of that > format before. > > (for the jsxgraph developers) How does JSXGraph compare with Geogebra?
One is written in Java and another in Javascript, which has major implications. E.g., geogebra can run as a standalone desktop app. I think Geogebra is also more mature and well developed (it's been under very active development for about 4 years, at least), and has several hundred thousand users. I think JSXGraph is very cool though, and having immediate no-annoying-java javascript is very nice, and has the benefit of being able to work nicely with other javascript libraries such as jquery. I could see both a lightweight "geogebra viewer" and JSXGraph having a place in the Sage notebook, personally. I've cc'd Markus Hohenwarter (lead developer of Geogebra) in case he can look at JSXGraph and make some comments comparing it to Geogebra. Markus: Have you worked more on making a standalone "geogebra viewer", which could get embedded in the Sage notebook? I would love to make that easily available/usable in Sage... > I couldn't find much on the web comparing the two. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
