mabshoff wrote: > > > On Feb 23, 9:00 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> Kenny wrote: >>> Is there any good reason for using flotr, protochart or any other >>> instead of flot?? >> I don't know. In order to standardize on flot or anything else, though, >> someone needs to post a message to sage-devel calling for a vote and >> explaining why the proposed package is better than anything else, etc. >> Having a prototype of something working would be advantageous for >> letting people try it out before voting. > > I don't think we are quite there yet. It seems that all the javascript > based plotting code seems to require canvas support (or at least takes > advantage of it), so IE support might be an issue here. I also fail to > see yet why this is significantly better and/or not achievable with > MPL and/or jmol. I am all for experimenting to see what is possible, > but I would not be in favor of adding another 2D plotting library to > Sage while we have MPL. > > That is obviously taking about standard Sage. A hook into the notebook > code to check if some of the above libraries is installed via some > optional library seems more than reasonable. >
Right now, I think the best solution for us would be some sort of html canvas backend for matplotlib. However, I haven't looked closely at the javascript plotters (just played with them for a bit). Having a canvas dependency isn't a showstopper, I don't think. IE doesn't support it, but there are multiple solutions to bring canvas to IE, including at least a javascript library (http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/) and an activex control (http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/07/30/no-browser-left-behind/). According to http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/08/mozilla-drags-ie-into-the-future-with-canvas-element-plugin.ars, the javascript library is what makes google maps work with IE, so I'd guess it's pretty well tested and it works. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
