Re: [Xournal-devel] Chrome experiment

[Jonathan R Y. <jon...@gm...>]

I completely agree about the pressure/subpixel aspects. Don't forget 
cross-platform ability too - Xournal started out as a Linux app

On 13/07/11 09:16, Felix Breuer wrote:
> Hi Wouter!
>
> To me, the key feature of Xournal has always been subpixel precision. 
> Along with presssure sensitivity, this is what makes handwriting in 
> Xournal readable. I cannot produce readable handwriting in any of the 
> HTML5 sketch apps I have seen so far.
>
> That said, I think there is great promise for an HTML5-based 
> Journal/Sketch/Notepad app. The question is how to get the pen data 
> (including pressure sensitivity and subpixel precision). There are two 
> options AFAIK:
>
> 1) The Wacom Web Browser Plugin 
> (http://www.wacomeng.com/web/index.html) 
> <http://www.wacomeng.com/web/index.html> works reasonably well (and 
> actually comes with a small sketch app as a demo). I have run into 
> some trouble, though, regarding window focus, etc. and I do not know 
> how actively Wacom maintains this plugin. Nonetheless I think this is 
> the way to go.
>
> 2) The alternative is to hand-code bindings to e.g. the WinTab API 
> using a foreign function interface to Javascript, such as JSctypes 
> (https://wiki.mozilla.org/JSctypes 
> <https://wiki.mozilla.org/JSctypes>). Of course, this would not work 
> from within a webbrowser because of the security model, but a 
> stand-alone app based on Xulrunner or Chromeless might work.
>
> As you can see I have a done a bit of research on this question (see 
> also http://www.inkcode.net) but I have not started coding any 
> HTML5-based sketch app yet. I do plan, however, to add some basic 
> sketch functionality to my experimental text editor Qute 
> (http://www.inkcode.net/qute-html5) in the future. Help would be very 
> welcome! Conversely, I would be interested in contributing to a more 
> Xournal-like HTML5 application.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>
>
> 2011/7/12 Wouter Geelen <wou...@gm... 
> <mailto:wou...@gm...>>
>
>     Anyone seen this chrome experiment?
>
>     http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/sketch/
>
>     http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sketch/
>
>     We could use the code to port xournal to the web...
>
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