Re: [matplotlib-devel] HTML5 Matplotlib Backend

[Ondrej C. <on...@ce...>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:51 AM, william ratcliff
<wil...@gm...> wrote:
> I just tested it and it's very cool!  It works fairly quickly locally.  It
> seems to work for Safari 5 and Chrome beta.  Firefox 3.6.3 is a no show.  I
> haven't tried Opera.   What I'm really curious about is what is the latency
> like over the actual internet, or under higher server loads (given the round
> tripping).  For us, I'd have to try to get it to work for firefox (I think
> as a cross platform browser, it's fairly common, especially on linux systems
> like Fedora, it's what the user is most likely to have.).  Thanks for
> sharing this!
>
> William
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Simon Ratcliffe <sra...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Our HTML5 based matplotlib backend is now available at:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas/
>>
>> There are some basic installation instructions and included examples
>> to get going. Keep in mind that the weakest link at this stage is
>> browser support.
>>
>> We recommend Chrome for the most hassle free experience.
>>
>> This is very much a beta release and has not seen action outside of
>> our internal testing, so we expect some teething troubles :)
>>
>> Please let us know what works for you, and what doesn't, and we will
>> try and fix things as they come up.

This looks very exciting. I don't know how to install chrome on my
rhel5 without root access (I didn't find any binary and the source
build fails due to some missing dependencies) and I have FF3.6.6, but
I'll try to download some development binary of FF, so that it works.

Ondrej