While reading the above interesting thread,
it just jumped to my mind that we could think of using JavaScript to render a *.dat or *.ldr input
to the browser's canvas.
As this will probably not be a lot of code, we could bear with the ugly JavaScript syntax
and at the same time profit from the recent speedup in JavaScript engines (Google's V8, Firefox's etc.),
and at the same time save users from having to install Java first.
Being a big Iron browser fan (the de-googled version of Chrome,
see http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php ),
I start liking that idea more and more:
Have a look at
http://www.chromeexperiments.com
to see what is possible with JavaScript nowadays
(I am told that there are even translator tools which translate nice Java code into JavaScript code,
but I have to find out more about this first)
it just jumped to my mind that we could think of using JavaScript to render a *.dat or *.ldr input
to the browser's canvas.
As this will probably not be a lot of code, we could bear with the ugly JavaScript syntax
and at the same time profit from the recent speedup in JavaScript engines (Google's V8, Firefox's etc.),
and at the same time save users from having to install Java first.
Being a big Iron browser fan (the de-googled version of Chrome,
see http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php ),
I start liking that idea more and more:
Have a look at
http://www.chromeexperiments.com
to see what is possible with JavaScript nowadays
(I am told that there are even translator tools which translate nice Java code into JavaScript code,
but I have to find out more about this first)