On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Pavel Solin <so...@unr.edu> wrote:
> You are right. We should reduce the initial amount of
> work for someone who visits for two minutes and
> just wants to check things out quickly. I described the notebook
> quite in detail in a new NSF proposal that I am submitting on
> Thursday, so it is well possible that some referee will
> visit the page with this purpose. Such person would not
> want to do any serious work, just to see what the notebook
> is about. The most he/she would be willing to do is to click
> into a list of published worksheets (available on the front
> page and hopefully sorted nicely into categories), which would
> automatically create a working copy that the person could
> run with a next mouse click and see the results immediately.
> Then there would be login for people who want to work on
> the worksheets, save them etc. But the login dialog should
> not be on the front page like it is now, it should be one mouse
> click further away. Does it make sense?

Yes, I think it makes sense. In fact, I already created a "login-free"
notebook like demo:

http://pythonnb.appspot.com/

so I know it is possible. I want to collaborate on the notebook
development with the Sage guys, so I CCed the sage-devel.

Ondrej

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to 
sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
URL: http://www.sagemath.org
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to