Re: [matplotlib-devel] Fwd: Summer of Code 2009: HTML5/Canvas backend for Matplotlib

2009-08-24 Thread Eric Bruning
This is neat to see - I mused into the dark about whether this was possible a couple weeks ago (https://twitter.com/deeplycloudy/status/3130819107). The killer-app next step would be to use a JSON callback to do set up interactive zooming, etc. A web browser is the ultimate portable backend, if yo

[matplotlib-devel] Fwd: Summer of Code 2009: HTML5/Canvas backend for Matplotlib

2009-08-22 Thread John Hunter
Paul Kienzle expressed interest at the mpl sprint in working on an html5 canvas backend for mpl. When we were taking GSOC applications earlier this year, Seo did a partial implementation of an html5 canvas which outputs javascript. I forwarding his email here with instructions on how to check thi