Re: [matplotlib-devel] Patch for Qt4 backend for IPython GUI

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

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Fernando Perez <fpe...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>> Dude, that just blew my mind!
>>
>
> Glad you like it :)
>
> And needless to say, once the dust settles and someone is willing, the
> obvious thing to do is to put a zeromq-http bridge and make a web
> browser-based client, so you can use ipython/matplotlib from your
> android/iphone/netbook/whatever.
>
> We've been scrupulously careful not to introduce any python
> assumptions client-side, so that in principle frontends can be written
> in any language or toolkit (e.g. html/javascript), the entire system
> is specified by its messaging protocol:
>
> http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/development/messaging.html

That'd be great. I think I either want to use regular terminal, or a
worksheet in the browser.

Ondrej