There isn't a single format for binary JSON, there's BSON [1], UBJSON [2],
BJSON [3], ... However, there's no reason that serialized ROS messages
couldn't be used (we allow web service calls using this in ROStful), though
with DDS for ROS 2.0, maybe that format will be changing soon.

[1] http://bsonspec.org/
[2] http://ubjson.org/
[3] http://bjson.org/


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Osentoski Sarah (CR/RTC1.1-NA) <
Sarah.Osentoski@us.bosch.com> wrote:

>  Hi Vincent,
>
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>
> A group of us are working on similar ideas over at Robot Web Tools
> http://robotwebtools.org/
>
> The community has a large number of tools to expose, work with, and
> visualize ros topics, services, and action services to the web.  Our
> previous efforts have focused on getting a framework that allows many types
> of interfaces to be built.    These tools could be used to create a
> web-based rviz or rqt etc.
>
>
>
> If you’re interested in such things please feel free to join the community
> effort!
>
> Best regards,
>
> *Sarah Osentoski*
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> Robert Bosch LLC
> Research and Technology Center (CR/RTC-NA)
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> Palo Alto, CA 94304
> www.BoschResearch.com <http://www.boschresearch.com/>
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> Sarah.Osentoski@us.bosch.com
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> *From:* ros-users-bounces@lists.ros.org [mailto:
> ros-users-bounces@lists.ros.org] *On Behalf Of *Vincent Rabaud
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 25, 2014 1:05 PM
> *To:* User discussions
> *Subject:* [ros-users] Web introspection tools
>
>
>
> At ROS Kong, some rQt on the web was demoed as well as a Gazebo web
> visualizer.
>
>
> I am no expert in web programing but what prevents us from moving rQt and
> RViz to the web/javascript ? The obvious advantages would be cross-platform
> support, optimizations independent of the underlying libraries, easier code
> to debug, no compilation. Plus, there are already great tools like
> robotwebtools and rosbridge.
>
> Here are a few reasons I was told that could prevent that move; are those
> really valid ? Are there better reasons ?
>
> - hard to access local files (html is not aware of local files)
>
> - no customizable shaders in WebGL (is that the case ? do we need those ?)
>
> - slow JSON parsing libraries (aren't those optimized in recent browsers ?)
>
> - heavy bandwidth usage (how about binary JSON ?)
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