6-1-07 Interface Cell Minutes

Attending:

Andrew, Mike, Carlos, Amit, Stefan, Stan

Upcoming NORA Video Demo:

• Mike and Andrew are looking at Catherine's bug list (Monday June 3 deadline).

Technology Evaluation:

• Look at 3 good candidates:
  • Adobe Flex
  • ZUL
  • Yahoo Web Toolkit
• Based on video from Piotr's Flash demo of moving 2D text.
  • http://www.digital-profiles.com/TechTest/tekst.avi
• This will allow us to compare performace of the different technologies using similar conditions.
• In addition to what the video shows, we want to test:
  • More text (which technology can handle the most?).
  • Bold, italic and so on.
  • Font change (maybe serif and sans - change every second line to test this?).
  • Can we maintain paragraph spacing?
  • Can we display text in different language sets (maybe cyrillic or something)?

• To be finished by midnight Wednesday, June 5.

Passing Data:

• XML or JSON will be good choices.
• Amit feels JSON is lighter weight than XML and it should provide better performance (although it might be more difficult to debug).

Potential Visualization Projects:

• Andrew has been working on a Java xPath viewer. Coming soon...