On May 30, 4:12 am, Ken Seehart <k...@seehart.com> wrote: > A couple years ago I stumbled upon an interesting technology but I can't > seem to find it, and I can remember what it is called. Unfortunately > this makes it difficult to search for. I am am aware of several partial > matches (items that meet a subset of the requirement listed below). > Does anyone know what does /all/ of the following? > > 1. Works on at least FF and IE on XP and Linux out of the box, probably > others > > 2. Does not require /any/ plugin download at all of any kind to view > (this disqualifies flash, svg, silverlight, java, and others) > > 3. If you go to the web page for the first time on a freshly installed > operating system, without admin privileges, you will see the > functionality listed below immediately, and with no downloaded plugins > and installers. (I apologize for the redundancy, but I want to > preemptively avoid a flood of non-applicable responses). > > 4. Graphics, including sprite animation > > 5. Dynamic response to mouse motion: dragging sprites for example > > 6. Programmable in Python, of course > > Hints from what I can recall: > - Built from javascript as it's raw material under the hood (after all, > it can't very well be anything else given requirements 1,2,3) > - Seems quite magical since I didn't know the necessary graphical raw > materials existed in javascript > - I think it's based on Ajax, but I can't seem to find a relevant python > demo of it due to too much clutter in my google searches > > Ken
Probably thinking of Pyjamas- <URL: http://pyjamas.sourceforge.net/>. It lets you interact with canvas- <URL: http://www.blobsallad.se/>- without writing any javascript. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list