[matplotlib-devel] web gui

Hi,

could someone please point me to the latest status of the web gui?

I am now in LLNL and I don't have a root access to my computer
(running rhel5), and there is no Tk, nor Tkinter Python modules. I
have installed femhub, so I have the whole python stack, but I don't
have any gui. Mpl can save figures to a file, so at least something.
But I am missing the zoom feature.

I found the following cool libraries:

http://www.sencha.com/
http://raphaeljs.com/
http://g.raphaeljs.com/

that work perfectly in my browser (FF3). So I wondered how hard it
would be to use them as an mpl backend? All I need, I think, is just
simple plotting, and zoom (+pan).

I could adapt for example:

lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py

but it seems quite involved. Is there some simple thing, that would
"just work" for me, that I could start adapting for the web gui? I
would imagine that show() would launch a web server and tell the user
to go to localhost:8080 or something and then the gui would be in the
browser. The browser can even be opened automatically.

Ondrej