newbie: python application on a web page

[André]

Max wrote:
> puzz wrote:
> > sorry about the missunderstanding...
> >
> > but my question is "how" and not "where" to put it online
> > and that's where the "newbie" comes from
> >
> > P M
>
> If you just want to make it available for download, that's easy. If you
> want to make it open source, you could upload it to
> planet-source-code.com (I used to put a lot there; don't know if they
> have a python section) or SourceForge depending on your "market".
>
> But what I think you want is a web interface (where a user goes to your
> site and uses it in the browser window). This is more tricky, but you're
> almost certainly going to have to abandon Tkinter. You could try doing
> an applet in Jython (which compiles Python to Java bytecode so you could
> in theory do a Java-style applet).
>
> The alternative is to have the curve drawn server-side, so you would
> have an HTML form on the page, and on clicking a button, load the graph
> (into an "iframe" or something perhaps [I have a feeling iframes have
> been deprecated - check first]). In which case you'd want to look up
> CGI, AJAX, etc.
>
I'd suggest drawing curves in a <canvas>; supported by Firfox, Safari,
Opera ... and, if you use Google's  "excanvas", it can be supported by
IE.

André

> --Max