Exciting stuff!
The latency would be an important factor for the user experience, but this
neatly sidesteps a lot of the JS issues. This would keep the main matplotlib
machinery on the Python side, which is great.
We could still do simple high-speed annotations requiring very low latency such
It is not clear to me that the stream of PNGs will win in the end. If
you make a single static plot of a large data set, that is way better
than trying to send the data to the browser and rendering it there.
But if you have to send hundreds or thousands of PNGs to get
interactivity, that benefit m
On 10/11/12 4:49 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I have a proof-of-concept way to make interactive plots in the browser
> work using transparent PNGs described here:
>
> http://mdboom.github.com/blog/2012/10/11/matplotlib-in-the-browser-its-coming/
>
> No PRs yet, because this is miles from ready f
