From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-07-08T18:56:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you recommend a language to...

Firefox supports the Javascript canvas component, which can do all
those things for you in ok speed (I think) (it's based on Cairo which
I love).

Hosting a web app in a LAN should really not be a problem. Just host
it on your own box.


That should make the web app viable.


Aur

On 7/6/07, Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Second question for the evening, but very closely related to the first.
>
> I've written some monitoring software at work, and would like to
> extend it quite a bit, including a gui with a few graphs.
> Ruby is causing me grief when it comes to distributing it (see 'Oh
> the Pain!...'), and assuming there's no way to overcome this, can
> anyone recommend a language that:
> * has a canvas with anti-aliasing, alpha-blending and double
> buffering  (or binding to a toolkit with one)
> * is simple to distribute
> * is cross platform (*nix and Windows)
> * is not Java (I actually like Java, I'm just trying to get away from
> it)
> * graphing libraries a bonus. Don't mind writing my own.
>
> I've considered a web app, but two things stand in my way:
> * Somewhere to host it (not much here you guys can help with)
> * Graphs becoming images and constant page refreshes chewing up
> bandwidth on the LAN.
> I need to be able to update the graphs and any other displays
> regularly (every minute or so) without sending another whole page.
> Currently all I've seen of web graphs are generated on the server and
> sent out as images. I'd like the ability to make them interactive
> down the track, if possible.
>
> Any help, advice or war stories much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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