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Matplotlib 1.2.0 releasedMatplotlib 1.2.0 releasedPosted Nov 23, 2012 13:20 UTC (Fri) by njs (guest, #40338)In reply to: Matplotlib 1.2.0 released by debacle Parent article: Matplotlib 1.2.0 released
My understanding is that the original HTML5 backend turns out not to be maintainable. (It was basically based on porting matplotlib's internals to javascript, a classic boil-the-ocean sort of project.) The new idea is to do all the rendering on the server, and send bitmaps to the browser as needed for interactivity, like VNC. This seems much more plausible to me: http://mdboom.github.com/blog/2012/10/11/matplotlib-in-th...
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Matplotlib 1.2.0 released Posted Nov 23, 2012 16:34 UTC (Fri) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]
Interesting approach. Let's see where it gets.
Michael is probably right, that moving huge amounts of data to the browsers JavaScript interpreter can be a problem. OTOH, letting the browser do the work scales nicely with the number of users, as the server does only have to provide more data, but not do more rendering work. Also, some interactive actions, like switching the visibility or colour of plot lines is sth. browsers can do nicely without any interaction with the server.
That's why we think about re-implementing parts of our matplotlib rendering in JavaScript, e.g. using D3 (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery), except for printing.
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