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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Vincent,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A group of us are working on similar ideas over at Robot Web Tools
<a href="http://robotwebtools.org/">http://robotwebtools.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you’re interested in such things please feel free to join the community effort!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best regards,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sarah Osentoski</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ros-users-bounces@lists.ros.org [mailto:ros-users-bounces@lists.ros.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Vincent Rabaud<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 25, 2014 1:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> User discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ros-users] Web introspection tools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At ROS Kong, some rQt on the web was demoed as well as a Gazebo web visualizer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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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.<br>
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Here are a few reasons I was told that could prevent that move; are those really valid ? Are there better reasons ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- hard to access local files (html is not aware of local files)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- no customizable shaders in WebGL (is that the case ? do we need those ?)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- slow JSON parsing libraries (aren't those optimized in recent browsers ?)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- heavy bandwidth usage (how about binary JSON ?)<o:p></o:p></p>
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