Christian, did you make any progress on the Globe variant that doesn't require client-side JavaScript anymore?
Thanks! Karsten On 1/9/14 9:53 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 1/8/14 10:10 PM, Arlo Breault wrote: >> On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Christian wrote: > > Hi Christian, hi Arlo, > > replying to both mails inline. > >>> On 08.01.2014 08:52, Karsten Loesing wrote: >>>> It seems that most things in Globe could work just fine without >>>> client-side JavaScript. The only problem might be bandwidth and weights >>>> graphs. How does Arlo's version display graphs? >>> >>> As far as i know it doesn't display the graphs right now. >> Right, they’re currently rendered client-side to a canvas. >> Switching to svgs, as you mention below, would be necessary. > > Makes sense. > >>>> However, I just looked at Debian's package search page, and there's no >>>> phantomjs in wheezy nor wheezy-backports. That means we probably can't >>>> run it on a Tor machine. :( >>> >>> Ok. Theoretically we could download the binary ( >>> http://phantomjs.org/download.html ) or build it ourself ( >>> http://phantomjs.org/build.html ). > > If we want to keep our sysadmins happy, we should only use packages in > wheezy or wheezy-backports. > >>>> What's the alternative? Use Globe's current codebase and turn it into >>>> something that runs in nodejs, which is contained in wheezy-backports? >>> >>> That's what I'm currently working on. As of now, only bridge details and >>> graphs aren't completly ported. > > Cool! > >> Sounds like you’re most of the way there. >> >> I only suggested the phantomjs approach as a means to avoid a rewrite, >> but since you’ve pretty much gone and done it, >> we’re probably better off focussing on that. > > I agree with Arlo. > >> Let me know if there’s anything I can help with. > > Thanks, Arlo! > >>> If you think if it's better to use Arlos approach I can try to change >>> the current globe to make it more useable via phantomjs. >>> >>> Btw because we can't provide interactive graphs without JavaScript I'm >>> building an API that uses d3js (like atlas and earlier versions of >>> globe), renders the graphs serverside as SVG and returns them. >>> This way users can link and embed SVGs for specific fingerprints using a >>> simple url ( like globe.torproject.org/relay/bandwidth/:fingerprint.svg >>> (http://globe.torproject.org/relay/bandwidth/:fingerprint.svg) >>> or something alike). > > Sounds great! Thank you! > > All the best, > Karsten > > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
