On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ondrej Certik<ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Ondrej Certik<ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ondrej Certik<ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Alex Clemesha<cleme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just set it up on the google app engine itself, then people can play 
>>>>>> with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, it's up:
>>>>> http://live.codenode.org
>>>>>
>>>>> The backend "kernel" is completely running on google app engine,
>>>>> (that is to say, all abitrary code executing is in the hands of google,
>>>>> not us, which is a wonderful thing :)
>>>>
>>>> Just to make sure --- is *everything* running on google? Or is there
>>>> something running on your servers too?
>>>>
>>>> Because I tried to create a new account, filled in
>>>> name+email+password, hit create account and it says waiting for
>>>> live.codenode.org... (e.g. firefox says that) and it hangs here for
>>>> couple minutes already....
>>>
>>> I retried and now it works. That's really cool that it works on the
>>> app engine, great job!
>>>
>>> I have some comments for possible improvements
>>>
>>> * I am confused when my cursor changes to the horizontal edit cursor
>>> (if you know what I mean)
>>> * I like to see the cells, just like in the sage notebook, I find it 
>>> intuitive
>>
>> That was also Guido van Rosum's main comment about the Sage notebook
>> when Alex Clemesha gave a talk (to him and others) at Scipy 2006.   He
>> (a) wanted the cells to be clear, and (b) wanted the current cell to
>> be _very_ clear.
>>
>> Oh, Guido was also very impressed by jsmath.
>
> Ah, if Guido wants that too, then the notebook definitely *should*
> have it. :) Alex, maybe add another switch in the options "make the
> cells very clear".
Yes, agreed!  We can put this in as a setting, and it can be the default
if enough people think (i.e Guido, et al :) it should be so.

-Alex



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> Ondrej
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-- 
Alex Clemesha
clemesha.org

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