Oh man. I was drafting a note and lost it. Oh well. Maybe best. I can be long winded :)
I can see lots of cool apps built with either Julia on top (Blink.jl) or JS on top (node-julia) for hybrid apps. My idea is a bit unorthodox (although not entirely original). I want to effectively turn the browser into a desktop. Whereas in the Blink Gadfly example, the plot gets launched into a new pop-up window, I'd like to launch the plot into an SVG-based figure window in the browser like the screenshot I sent earlier. Here is a demo video: http://youtu.be/IriE1ZP-uOM I've made a lot of progress since then and hope to have a new demo soon. The Blink.jl sample on the Readme page has got me imagining a situation where you expand the window to full screen (making it like a desktop), open the console, which acts like a REPL and then launch d3-based visualizations into figure windows all within the browser all driven by Julia. This would give me everything I like about Matlab, but better.
