It’s still interesting to learn about oriented graphs from AppEngine

Question

As for another case, pretty much the same question that I have, Brisside asked: A library for rendering Directed Graphs (similar to graphviz) to the Google App Engine

The accepted answer was "canvis," which looks very cool in terms of rendering, but canvis just does the drawing. Still need to call the binaries in the graphic to execute the layout, but not right? Or what I’m missing is to understand the author "Amazing! I just got his work on GAE. Thank you!" - Perhaps I will have to resort to the layout manually through my own python code when you create my specification of the graph in point language? (I will also resort to the other options mentioned.)

Answer 1

Canvis does not call graphviz itself - it displays xdot directly in the browser. Of course, you still need to somehow generate xdot files, but canvis doesn't care where they came from.