Dan, I'm glad you like most of what has been done. If you manage to get anything to fail please report that as well.
As to the speed, there's not a lot we can do. That is limited by how fast information is passed from the server and how fast your computer is. Jmol is doing quite a bit of computation to produce the live figures. Because of JavaVM memory constraints within browsers things do not work well if more than one applet is loading at once. This means that each applet has to finish loading before the next one can start. One thought is to make it clearer what is happening. Would a pop-up progress window indicating which applet is loading help with the way it feels? Long term, I will probably make it so that old pages load with all the applets replaced by static images, but this requires changes to the plot3d functions. I was worrying about the interface first. Jonathan On Mar 31, 8:44 pm, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 at 06:08AM -0700, Jonathan wrote: > > If you want to see what is coming down the pike in the next few > > weeks, take a look at the published samples on my test server: > > http:///141.233.197.45:8888. I could really use some comments on how > > it works. > > I'm using Firefox 4.0 on Ubuntu 10.10 with the Sun/Oracle Java > andhttp://141.233.197.45:8888/home/pub/0/is working great. I really like > the new controls -- putting it in a new window, changing the size, > turning the spin on and off. The sleeping/interactive thing is also > nice. > > The only slight problem is that it did take quite a long time for all > the applets to load, but I suppose it's better to get things working > first before we worry about speed. > > I tried the "lots of applets" worksheet, and tried to get every applet > interactive and spinning. I see that some will automatically sleep, > rather than have too many applets running. That's nice. > > Excellent work! Thanks so much for your efforts. Jmol is absolutely > essential to me when I teach multivariable calc. > > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake > ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > ------- > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
