> > It would be nice if @interactdemonstrations and cells (both read-only > > and read-write) could be added to blog entries. > > Indeed, exactly.
Although this definitely sounds cool, I'm wondering what features already exist that are not this fancy. Here's the limit of my knowledge on how to share Sage interactive demonstrations, and I'd be very happy if someone who knew more could enlighten me about the state of the art in this area: If I want to share an interactive demonstration I made with Sage, I need to publish it on a Sage server to which my target audience has accounts. Then they need to view the worksheet (which will not show them any @interactively computed stuff), click "Edit a copy" (which will then show the @interactively computed stuff), and then play around with my demo. Am I right? If so, this seems a little roundabout. That is, @interact seems like a public relations dream come true for Sage (like the Wolfram Demonstrations Project is for Mathematica), but if it's this tricky to share the @interactive stuff you make, that's a big missed opportunity. The ideal is to be able to give users a link to the interactive play space (minimizing the barrier between the user and the product). I realize that, in the OSS community, when suggestions arrive, a common (and appropriate) answer is, "Good idea! Please build it and send us a patch!" So forgive me for making the suggestions while I'm involved in other OSS projects that prevent me from contributing here as well. But I'm actually hoping that the response I'll get here is someone's pointing out to me that I'm wrong about the state of the art, and that something better is actually already possible, and I just didn't know how. If it's not, then I ask: - Would it be hard to segregate out a special place on sagenb.org (or anywhere) for officially published demos (rather than one huge publish zone)? - Would it be hard to make it so that interactive worksheets are actually interactive even if they're only being viewed (not edited)? These two things together would make it possible for the Sage community to have something to compete with the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, which many educators are getting quite excited about, and for good reason. Except you wouldn't need to download and install a "player" to use the Sage version, and you could contribute to it for free. Nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
