Hi William!
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 05:33:57PM -0800, William Stein wrote:
> Can I ask one quick question? This is *NOT* meant to be a rhetorical
> question (though it could incorrectly be taken that way). Why did you
> not write this as an interact?
The main reason is that we are not serious notebook users; so even if
we did write a couple small interacts, this is not our natural reflex
:-) Another reason is that we wanted something as simple as possible
that would "behave like" the lmfdb; i.e. a standalone web app.
That being said, having explorer cells in the notebook (or even in a
single-cell using the single-cell server) definitely sounds natural,
as well as using interacts for this.
> I think with a few small additions to interact (maybe the kinds I
> just did in my re-implementation of interact over the weekend for
> salvus), this would be pretty easily done using interact.
I just had a deeper look at the current interact code. The main
feature I feel I am missing to implement an "interact-based" Sage
Explorer is how to change the list of controls, and not only the
output zone, each time an interaction occurs (here there is basically
one per method of the object being explored). If this is possible, A
small example would be most welcome!
> I note "The two authors are unlikely to lead further development of
> this tool," below, and think perhaps the best next step would be to
> take the same idea (and most of the same code), but done in the
> context of an enhanced interact command.
Yup. Ideally only the rendering part would change and the rest of the
code base would remain identical, so that it could also be used in a
standalone app like now.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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