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I should have provided a bit more information here. Here's a rough in-progress view of what I'm up to. http://www.natehill.net/loadsketch/donerightclasses.html I was using processing.js to read a file and then visualize some of the data... you can see the circles are being generated from the values in the .txt file. The actual text in the right column isn't being rendered as html, it's being drawn in the canvas... which is stupid, i need it to be html and actually do some stuff with it. I'm going to rethink my approach on this whole thing, it may have been flawed from the start. Thanks folks. N On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Well, you need to use javascript if you want it to run in a browser. So > that's one reason to pick it, and the main reason people pick it for it's > most popular uses. > > It will be very difficult to get javascript running in a browser to do > what you just said though. Not sure if you were running your js in an > arbitrary client's browser, or server-side. > > You _can_ run javascript server-side, but it requires setting up a JS > interpreter of some kind, etc., and most people don't do it just for the > heck of it, they do it because they have some specific reason to want > javascript for that. They want to be on the cutting edge trying out crazy > new things, they just love javascript, they particularly want the > non-blocking functionality of the node.js server, they need to interact > with other libraries of functions already written in js, they have some > crazy plan to share code between server-side and client-side, etc. > > So, yeah, I think you were on the right track, I'm not sure why you were > trying to do that in javascript either! > > -- Nate Hill [log in to unmask] http://www.natehill.net