Idle Hacking

I put together a little heap sort demonstration with PGF today... I had to add text support to the VML renderer for IE. The performance in PGF really isn't that great. I've played with standalone SVG examples that were reasonably fast in comparison... Anyways, I think it's pretty neat that there now exists a pretty capable library that allows anyone to create some pretty cool graphics directly in the browser without requiring any plugins...

Update:

I just noticed the text doesn't render in mac firefox apparently a bug in the SVG renderer for mac (sighs)

This is a really great thing to see other people using XULRunner. Check out how jester can be used from inside an XPCOM Component by integrating with prototype.js. I wish I known about prototype when working on SimoHealth. Also for anyone interested I know the source repository for XULMusic is down and plan on having it backup over the weekend...