[SnapPea-planning] priorities

[Nathan Dunfield]

> Does Sage have support for graphics?

Sure.  Including 3d graphics and basic GUI features (like  
Mathematica's interact).   See the examples at

  http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/

A link editor would be harder --- I think you'd have to write it in  
Javascript --- the Sage notebook is an AJAX application, just like  
Google docs, on which is partially modeled.   You can try Sage  
directly on the web here:  http://www.sagenb.org/   Firefox is  
probably the browser it works best with, though some people use  
Safari, think.

One downside of Sage is that the Windows port is kinda clunky.   
Because many of the underlying components don't compile there, Sage  
instead provides a VMWare virtual machine to be run on the free (as  
in beer) VMWare player.  One still uses a native webrowser though, so  
probably the user experience is similar to the other versions.   The  
other downside (or upside depending on how you view it) is the  
constant development, which is not always backward compatible.

	Best,
		
	Nathan