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AJAXian Canvas, Python, and Web 2.0 goodness
Monday February 26 2007, @03:14PM
Ever had to find your way around a huge college campus? How about ever been late for a class or meeting on a regular?
AJAX to the rescue!
WWU Route Finder is a proof of concept of an AJAX map using Canvas and Python. Click two buildings, and the Python back end, accessed using XMLHTTPRequest of course, shows you the shortest path between your start and destination.
The biggest advantage is that the Python back end can access a highly optimized Graphing library and potentially support real time processing of hundreds of thousands of nodes, taking advantage of the server hardware and not relying upon the performance of a browser's Javascript engine.
AJAX to the rescue!
WWU Route Finder is a proof of concept of an AJAX map using Canvas and Python. Click two buildings, and the Python back end, accessed using XMLHTTPRequest of course, shows you the shortest path between your start and destination.
The biggest advantage is that the Python back end can access a highly optimized Graphing library and potentially support real time processing of hundreds of thousands of nodes, taking advantage of the server hardware and not relying upon the performance of a browser's Javascript engine.
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Now THAT is cool! (Score:2)
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Indeed, I did. Freshman/Sophmore algorithms, but excellent use of them.
My county kinda-sorta-almost has something like it set up. Dealing with directed graphs and
safari (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2, Interesting)
I have no clue why, it is just a simple alert() call. ^_^
Actually, scrolling the page is broken in every browse except Firefox. Why? Well every browser[1] implements ge