On Jan 10, 2008 1:12 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2008 2:35 PM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Ted Kosan wrote: > > > > > > > > Tom wrote: > > > > > >> Excellent idea, Ted. I took your idea, expanded upon it, and > > >> added standard scalable development concepts to accelerate the > > >> synergy of the web service protocols you've proposed. > > >> > > >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/boothby/ > > >> web_service_architecture_joke.png > > >> > > >> (tongue firmly in cheek) > > > > > > That's quite funny :-) > > > > > > Anyway, in about the same amount of time it took you to put that > > > together, I got a graphic equation editor working in the notebook. > > > Just execute the following code in a notebook cell for a > > > demonstration: > > > > > > html('<applet id="mathrider"\ > > > width="540" height="322"\ > > > archive="Project.jar,AbsoluteLayout.jar,swing- > > > layout-1.0.jar,jdom.jar,jep.jar"\ > > > code="Display.MainApplet.class"\ > > > codebase="http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/tkosan/mathrider/ > > > DragMath/applet/classes"\ > > > name="DragMath">\ > > > MAYSCRIPT </applet>') > > > > Maybe it's just that my system senses my inate hostility to Java, but > > this doesn't seem to work well for me (Mac OS X, 10.4.11, Safari 3 > > Public Beta, whatever version of Java I have). > > > > I pasted the above snippit into the notebook, and evaluated it, > > giving me a sort of Java-looking subwindow. I could type a few > > things, but after I started clicking on icons, the interface ground > > to a halt, and icons got repainted in the wrong places as I clicked. > > > > Java: write once, run occasionally. :-} > > Since we're comparing Java to Javascript for the purposes of an equation > editor, > I did a quick google search and found that the author of jsmath wrote > a javascript > equation editor. Please try it out: > > http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/talks/2006-12-08.IMA/editor.html > > It uses jsmath to implement an equation editor. Lets see how many > people have trouble using this and how many don't, and what you think > of how it looks.
This works for me quite well (Debian sid, epiphany), but needs more polishing (for example I tried sin(pi)) and it didn't look as pretty as latex. :) To take my part in the flamebate, I also prefer ajax, as this is slow, and maybe it sucks, but it works. java is maybe gpl, but it is not in Debian (there are some licensing problems with some parts of the java, but I didn't dug into it). And as seen in this thread, ajax mostly works for everyone, but not java. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
