[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-09 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 9, 2:08 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > mabshoff wrote: > > Well, svg on IE requires a plugin while the canvas element seems to be > > support by all major rendering engines. So why make things > > complicated? Anything requiring a plugin leads to usability problems, > > i.e. I don't have to

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-09 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 12:41 pm, Jason Grout wrote: >> Rob Beezer wrote: >>> When you follow the link to the demos, you get a graphic on the right, >>> where if you move the mouse over the plot, text below continuously >>> updates the coordinates. The vertical scale appears logarithmi

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-09 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 9, 12:41 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > Rob Beezer wrote: > > When you follow the link to the demos, you get a graphic on the right, > > where if you move the mouse over the plot, text below continuously > > updates the coordinates.  The vertical scale appears logarithmic and > > the coordinat

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-09 Thread Jason Grout
Rob Beezer wrote: > When you follow the link to the demos, you get a graphic on the right, > where if you move the mouse over the plot, text below continuously > updates the coordinates. The vertical scale appears logarithmic and > the coordinates are reported correctly. > > No idea if this is s

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-08 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 8, 9:29 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > When you follow the link to the demos, you get a graphic on the right, > where if you move the mouse over the plot, text below continuously > updates the coordinates.  The vertical scale appears logarithmic and > the coordinates are reported correctly. > >

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-08 Thread Rob Beezer
When you follow the link to the demos, you get a graphic on the right, where if you move the mouse over the plot, text below continuously updates the coordinates. The vertical scale appears logarithmic and the coordinates are reported correctly. No idea if this is something that could eventually

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-08 Thread Alex Clemesha
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> I just want to point out that the above *is* what the 3d plotting in >> Sage currently does. >> >> Doing something similar for 2d plots would be great. > > I just stumbled upon this announcement for a HTML5 'canvas' d

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-08 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> I just want to point out that the above *is* what the 3d plotting in >> Sage currently does. >> >> Doing something similar for 2d plots would be great. > > I just stumbled upon this announcement for a HTML5 'canvas' d

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-08 Thread Pat LeSmithe
William Stein wrote: > I just want to point out that the above *is* what the 3d plotting in > Sage currently does. > > Doing something similar for 2d plots would be great. I just stumbled upon this announcement for a HTML5 'canvas' driver for gnuplot: http://www.nabble.com/New-terminal-driver%3

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Feb 6, 4:41 pm, Pat LeSmithe wrote: >> The custom editor would definitely be cool. I was referring to the >> possibility of running some of Sage's computations in the browser. For >> example, if the server had access to Python... >

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 6, 4:41 pm, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > The custom editor would definitely be cool.  I was referring to the > possibility of running some of Sage's computations in the browser.  For > example, if the server had access to Python... Ah, now i understand. The problem is, python alone doesn't help.

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Feb 6, 12:41 pm, Pat LeSmithe wrote: >> In trying to answer a slightly different question, I just found pyjamas, >> an Apache-licensed Pythonic analogue of Google Web Toolkit (GWT): >> >> http://pyjs.org/ >> >> Could it be relevant? > > Well, this is a cross language c

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 6, 7:35 am, Jason Grout wrote: > mabshoff wrote: > > Yes, but Jython does not support the Python C-API, so you cannot run > > Sage that way. One day far, far into the future this might be doable > > via IronPython where a project exists to bring the Python C-API to > > the .Net machin

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > > > On Feb 6, 7:03 am, Jason Grout wrote: >> Ronan Paixão wrote: >> Of course, concerns about security and usability may well restrict the privileges to a specific subset of Sage's commands and fraction of server resources. Still, it would be great if Wikipedia

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread mabshoff
On Feb 6, 7:03 am, Jason Grout wrote: > Ronan Paixão wrote: > > >> Of course, concerns about security and usability may well restrict the > >> privileges to a specific subset of Sage's commands and fraction of > >> server resources.  Still, it would be great if Wikipedia entries, say, > >> coul

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Jason Grout
Ronan Paixão wrote: > >> Of course, concerns about security and usability may well restrict the >> privileges to a specific subset of Sage's commands and fraction of >> server resources. Still, it would be great if Wikipedia entries, say, >> could include pertinent, pedagogical "gadgets" to illu

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 6, 12:41 pm, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > In trying to answer a slightly different question, I just found pyjamas, > an Apache-licensed Pythonic analogue of Google Web Toolkit (GWT): > > http://pyjs.org/ > > Could it be relevant? Well, this is a cross language compiler, and well, using GWT direc

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Ronan Paixão wrote: [> Pat LeSmithe wrote:] >> Of course, concerns about security and usability may well restrict the >> privileges to a specific subset of Sage's commands and fraction of >> server resources. Still, it would be great if Wikipedia entries, say, >> could include pertinent, pedagogi

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-06 Thread Ronan Paixão
> Of course, concerns about security and usability may well restrict the > privileges to a specific subset of Sage's commands and fraction of > server resources. Still, it would be great if Wikipedia entries, say, > could include pertinent, pedagogical "gadgets" to illustrate concepts > which ar

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-04 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Jason Grout wrote: > Pat LeSmithe wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: Of course, Sage is already a great example and enabler of collaborative mathematics on many levels. But perhaps features of Sage Notebook would be useful in f

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-04 Thread Jason Grout
Pat LeSmithe wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: >>> Of course, Sage is already a great example and enabler of collaborative >>> mathematics on many levels. But perhaps features of Sage Notebook would >>> be useful in fully-fledged forums? For ex

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-04 Thread Pat LeSmithe
William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: >> Of course, Sage is already a great example and enabler of collaborative >> mathematics on many levels. But perhaps features of Sage Notebook would >> be useful in fully-fledged forums? For example, one might embed a l

[sage-devel] Re: Massively collaborative mathematics + Sage-ready blogs and forums

2009-02-03 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > > > Hello, > > I just wanted to point out Tim Gowers' Polymath, an experiment in > "massively collaborative mathematics" currently underway on his blog: > > http://gowers.wordpress.com/ > > It seems the basic idea is that in an appropriate pub