Maybe interesting to know where R is going or for others implementing similar ideas: Plotting on a canvas element, that's pure javascript with "drawing" commands instead of transferring images. On top of that it might be possible to implement browser-side-only zooming.
Harald ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Horner <jeff.hor...@vanderbilt.edu> Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 15:46 Subject: [R-pkgs] New R graphics package targeting HTML 5 canvas element To: r-packa...@r-project.org Hi, canvas is a new R package implementing a graphics device that emits javascript code conforming to the HTML 5 CanvasRenderingContext2D interface. Available on CRAN soon, but you can get it here immediately: http://www.rforge.net/canvas If you have access to a beta web browser like Firefox 3.1 or later, you can see example plots here: http://www.rforge.net/canvas/plots/index.html Clicking on one of the plots will take you to a comparator page where the plot is rendered twice, once with the canvas package and once with the png(type='cairo') function. The implementation is almost complete, however there are some parts that need work like font metrics and dotted/dashed lines. If anyone is interested in helping flesh out the remaining bits, I'd be much obliged. Best, Jeff _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list r-packa...@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
