Computable Document Format.(CDF): new interactive document format

[John Graves]

Computable Document Format.
This revolutionizes the experience of reading.

Watch the presentation at http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/announcing_cdf/

[Mary Rearick]

Oh, wow, this is very well done. Thanks for sharing it in the edumooc.

[john stampe]

Interesting. On doing some searching I found these out: currently the
only way to produce cdf is to use Mathematica - a well-known closed-
source mathematics program -- by Wolfram, the same people who propose
cdf.

The cdf reader program is a stripped down version of mathematica.
According to Wolfram this is because it needs the computational power
of mathematica. It sound as though cdf requires a rather heavyweight
reader. Indeed to write a cdf document you need to be able to at the
level of using spreadsheet macros (again according to Wolfram).

The format is supposed to be open, but I (and others) cannot find the
specifications. It is also licensed so that it can be used for
commerical use.

Some further links:

FAQ: http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/faq/

See Comments on
http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/07/21/launching-the-computable-document-format-cdf-dont-compress-the-idea-expand-the-medium/

License: http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/adopting-cdf/licensing-options.html

On Jul 29, 8:50 pm, John Graves <john.graves.at....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Computable Document Format.
> This revolutionizes the experience of reading.
>
> Watch the presentation athttp://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/announcing_cdf/

On Jul 29, 9:46 pm, Mary Rearick <mlrear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, wow, this is very well done. Thanks for sharing it in the edumooc.
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:50 AM, John Graves

> <john.graves.at....@gmail.com>wrote: