I completely agree about the pressure/subpixel aspects. Don't forget
cross-platform ability too - Xournal started out as a Linux app
On 13/07/11 09:16, Felix Breuer wrote:
Hi Wouter!
To me, the key feature of Xournal has always been subpixel precision.
Along with presssure sensitivity, this is what makes handwriting in
Xournal readable. I cannot produce readable handwriting in any of the
HTML5 sketch apps I have seen so far.
That said, I think there is great promise for an HTML5-based
Journal/Sketch/Notepad app. The question is how to get the pen data
(including pressure sensitivity and subpixel precision). There are two
options AFAIK:
1) The Wacom Web Browser Plugin
(http://www.wacomeng.com/web/index.html)
<http://www.wacomeng.com/web/index.html> works reasonably well (and
actually comes with a small sketch app as a demo). I have run into
some trouble, though, regarding window focus, etc. and I do not know
how actively Wacom maintains this plugin. Nonetheless I think this is
the way to go.
2) The alternative is to hand-code bindings to e.g. the WinTab API
using a foreign function interface to Javascript, such as JSctypes
(https://wiki.mozilla.org/JSctypes
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/JSctypes>). Of course, this would not work
from within a webbrowser because of the security model, but a
stand-alone app based on Xulrunner or Chromeless might work.
As you can see I have a done a bit of research on this question (see
also http://www.inkcode.net) but I have not started coding any
HTML5-based sketch app yet. I do plan, however, to add some basic
sketch functionality to my experimental text editor Qute
(http://www.inkcode.net/qute-html5) in the future. Help would be very
welcome! Conversely, I would be interested in contributing to a more
Xournal-like HTML5 application.
Cheers,
Felix
2011/7/12 Wouter Geelen <wouter.gee...@gmail.com
<mailto:wouter.gee...@gmail.com>>
Anyone seen this chrome experiment?
http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/sketch/
http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sketch/
We could use the code to port xournal to the web...
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