rufuspollock-okfn / dataexplorer

View, visualize, clean and process data in the browser.
http://explorer.okfnlabs.org
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[super] Ability to load your own functions #136

Open rufuspollock opened 11 years ago

rufuspollock commented 11 years ago

Should be able to specify new script libraries you can load.

This would address (or support) a lot of other issues including #68 (geocode scripting functions) and be a massive feature ...

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

I'm wondering if we could take inspiration from @maxogden's https://github.com/maxogden/requirebin plus browserify generally. As I understand requirebin it uses https://github.com/maxogden/browser-module-sandbox to run the actual user script. That in turn works roughly like this:

Questions I have:

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

@maxogden re previous comment - any idea on the last set of questions? In particular, I take it one can do on the fly browserify-ication in the browser (and hence potentially in a web worker ...)