Michael, I understand your comments, but my desire to include something like Flot comes from the need of having dynamic zooming and panning, and tooltips and something else like that. Is this possible with matplotlib? I didn't find the way to do it.
On the contrary, even the simplest javascript plot library allows for these features, but they obviously lack in other areas. For example, my first intention was to have the bode plots implemented, to make them easily browsable, but I discovered that none of these js plotting packages have the semilog or loglog option, and making it work was quite a pain... Today we (Kenny and me) have a working alpha. It is unfinished, but we think that these added capabilities show the possible advantages, if someone wants to work a little bit on that. In this case, in my opinion, we are not talking about doing the same thing with two overlapping packages. On the contrary, we are addressing two completely different issues. Infact, we will probably stay with MPL as far as saving PNG are concerned (probably the best way to incorporate plots in the notebook), but certainly go with this FLOT when working within the browser. We hope to send you some example ASAP, so that you can judge yourself and the decide what to do. Regards Maurizio On Feb 23, 6:32 pm, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Feb 23, 9:00 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > > Kenny wrote: > > > Is there any good reason for using flotr, protochart or any other > > > instead of flot?? > > > I don't know. In order to standardize on flot or anything else, though, > > someone needs to post a message to sage-devel calling for a vote and > > explaining why the proposed package is better than anything else, etc. > > Having a prototype of something working would be advantageous for > > letting people try it out before voting. > > I don't think we are quite there yet. It seems that all the javascript > based plotting code seems to require canvas support (or at least takes > advantage of it), so IE support might be an issue here. I also fail to > see yet why this is significantly better and/or not achievable with > MPL and/or jmol. I am all for experimenting to see what is possible, > but I would not be in favor of adding another 2D plotting library to > Sage while we have MPL. > > That is obviously taking about standard Sage. A hook into the notebook > code to check if some of the above libraries is installed via some > optional library seems more than reasonable. > > > Jason > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
