[FM Discuss] nicely done

[Andy Oram]

Thanks for the fuller explanation. HTML 5, by providing containers for multimedia, should also make it easier to generate graphs like this using standard, free technologies. Older browsers, of course, don't support HTML 5, but we can use it as a way to encourage people to update their browsers, which is good for security and other reasons.

Andy

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From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
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Sent: Monday, November 2, 2009 3:59:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] nicely done

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 12:07 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
> I know a little bit of the Processing language, but don't feel
> competent to build a sophisticated application like the Darwin one. I
> don't quite understand it anyway. I suggest you write up some quick
> high-level requirements and we can pass it around. Fry likes open
> source and may help, or suggest someone to help.

hey,

I was wanting to see if its possible to make visualisations of the
progress of a text as it is contributed to over time. i would prefer not
to use flash, but the same thing could be animated with javascript

we have in fm the timestamp for edits and the possibility to generate
diffs on the text by comparing timestamps. booki will have even more
data available eventually, but to build something that could take as
input author + timestamp info + contributed text/changes and display it
over time would be a very interesting tool


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