Robert wrote: > What is unfinished about it? Just because the author had/has more > plans for it doesn't mean it isn't very useable now (more so, I would > argue, than a drag-n-drop interface).
Mouse positioning of the cursor, cut and paste, multiple fonts, font resizing, multiple equations on one "sheet" of paper, 2D plotting, 3D plotting, tabbed panes, etc. Moving on to DragMath's capabilities: load and save to disk, multi-language support, export to LaTeX, MathML, Maple, and Maxima along with the ability to add additional export formats (like Sage) by editing an XML-based configuration file. I know what Java can do and I have posted demo code which illustrates it running in the notebook. Now I want to see what Javascript is capable of because almost everything GUI-related I have seen which is written in Javascript seems unfinished to me when compared to Java GUI stuff. From what I have seen so far, Javascript is simply incapable of coming anywhere close to what Java can do. If it can, I would love to see actual running examples like I have been providing :-) Going back to the initial post in this thread, the Wiris people "...ended the discussion by telling us that their web-based interface is (going to be) much better than ours." I don't think they arrived at this conclusion by thinking that William and Tom were substandard programmers (which is obviously not the case). I think they looked at the Sage notebook and concluded they could have written an equivalent in Java with something like NetBeans in a day or two. Anyway, since I am one of the few Java developers on this list (and since I was mentioned by name in the original post) I felt it was my duty to provide arguments for the Java-side of this discussion. I have done this to my satisfaction :-) Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
