On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Skylar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, I am certainly no javascript master.  I think maybe the best
> that I can do is to understand the simple server and build from there.
>
> Maybe I can do it in some number of months half-time.  It would be a
> useful adaptation to introduce kids to sage that don't necessarily
> need to be managing whole worksheets much less whole notebooks.

If nothing else, it is a really good idea, and I think something like
it would be useful.  Thanks for suggesting it.

Just out of curiosity, what do you think of this:

   http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/calc/

It wrote it years ago (before Sage), but could do a Sage version that
would be included standard in sage.


>
> sos
>
> On Jan 19, 10:39 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Robert Bradshaw
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jan 19, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Skylar wrote:
>>
>> >> I was rather hoping to keep all of the great js/css and everything
>> >> having to do with the cell like the tab completion and the way that
>> >> the input and output are handled - all are fantastic in the notebook.
>> >> I was just hoping that I could send a single cell the way that it is
>> >> displayed and functioning in the full notebook to an address/port.  I
>> >> am not sure that using the simple server would be the best way to
>> >> accomplish this.
>>
>> > You're right--it would probably would be easier to try and modify the
>> > notebook to get this effect. The simple API was more designed to be a
>> > "back end" interface.
>>
>> You will probably have to copy out a bunch of javascript from
>>
>>  SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/js.py
>>
>> in some clever way into your webpage.  Then probably use
>> the simple API as the backend to actually do the work.
>>
>> To do this right would probably require some serious refactoring
>> of js.py, and at least understanding that javascript code.  I'm sure
>> it could be done and that I could do it.  I would estimate it would
>> take me a week of fulltime work to do this right.  (I'm probably not
>> going to do this; I'm just sharing some thoughts.)
>>
>>  -- William
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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