Re: Mathematica will be a new feature of HTML6
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- Subject: [mg115391] Re: Mathematica will be a new feature of HTML6
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:35:26 -0500 (EST)
Mathematica 8, at least on the Windows platform, now includes a browser
plug-in that acts as a partial substitute for the Front End. Not only
can you view a notebook directly in the browser, evaluate Input cells
there and see the corresponding output, but you can insert cells of your
own.
(There's no way there, though, to get context-sensitive links to the
Documentation Center, or do most of the myriad things currently on the
actual Front End's menus.)
Maintaining a separate version of the Front End for each platform, with
all that entails with respect to platform-specific windowing and library
system calls, is an expense that might become unsustainable. (Of course
unlike much software, for Mathematica the user interface is surely not
the major part of development.)
I say this in light of what's happened with one programming
language/software-development-system that I use: Jsoftware's "J" (Ken
Iverson's successor to APL, and not to be confused with anything related
to Java). In their current public beta, they provide a browser interface
and have indicated their abandoning a platform-specific front end for
precisely those kinds of reasons.
On 1/9/2011 2:18 AM, brien colwell wrote:
> Given that I regularly hang an 8 core box with 32GiB of RAM using
> Mathematica, I'm not sure I'd want some arbitrary M computation
> running in my browser ... ;) Isn't that what WebMathematica is for?
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:41 AM, a boy<AvvBoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I guess Mathematica will be a standard mathematic script language of HTML 6. A snippet of HTML6 maybe like this:
>>
>> <html>
>> <body>
>> <script language===94mathematica=94 out===94mout1=94 autoExecuteTimes==1 display===94toolbar:run, interrupt,status;panel:sourcecode,lineNumber;=94>
>> Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,2Pi}]
>> Prime[Range[1000]]
>> </script>
>> <mathoutput id===94mout1=94 style===94=94 display===94toolbar:clear=94/>
>>
>> <script language===94mathematica=94 out===94img1=94 autoExecuteTimes==1>
>> Plot[PrimePi[x],{x,0,10^6}]
>> </script>
>> <img id===94img1=94/>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> HTML file will be the work sheet in next version of Mathematica, instead of notebook(.nb). Mathematica will be another web browser and another IDE at the same time.
>>
>> Mathematica virtual machine& ObjectM
>> ObjectM will bore! ObjectM is an OO programming language which combines Mathematica and Java. The compiled class files can run in Mathematica virtual machine. So we can write the desktop applications by using ObjectM. Just like Java or Flash, but be more powerful.
>>
>>
>
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