What’s New in CDF for 2016?

My annual summary of the state of CDF

André Kuzniarek
Executive Director, Document and Media Systems
Wolfram Research

Quick Status Updates

Wolfram Player for iOS released 10/4/17

11.2 CDF Player released 10/5/17

Slight changes made to File menu for CDF export

Web plugin no longer installed or supported
(the cloud beckons)

More about iOS

iPad and iPhone

Look up talks by Rob and Jason from yesterday

Player is free for static viewing of NB/CDF files

Becomes interactive at FreeCDF level with:

Cloud account login     – or –

Files saved from an Enterprise product     – or –

One-time in-app purchase

Access NB/CDF files from your cloud account, while running locally in the player

Start-up Screen Reminder

Start-up screen design since v11 has clearer Player Pro upgrade indicator

Checkbox to hide, though screen should not display when player
starts directly from a file

File Menu Changes

No longer a separate CDF Export item, just Preview

Export appears in the Preview toolbar, and defaults to license level

No Plugin, More Cloud

Updates to CDF web site examples

Textbook

Journal article

Knowledge-apps

Updates to the Demonstrations Project

New look, adjusted features

Testing so far shows ~85% cloud rendering success rate

But many are still too slow for practical use and will be limited
to download only

Resource Objects

All Demonstrations will soon be available via the resource system:

ResourceData[
"Demonstrations Project: Voronoi Diagrams"]

ResourceData[
"Demonstrations Project: Toroidal Transmission"]

ResourceData[
"Demonstrations Project: Chladni Figures"]

ResourceData[
"Demonstrations Project: Fractal Curves"]

ResourceObject["Demonstrations Project: Voronoi Diagrams"]["Description"]

ResourceObject["Demonstrations Project: Voronoi Diagrams"]["AuthoringInformation"]

NotebookPut@ResourceData["Demonstrations Project: Voronoi Diagrams","NotebookExpression"]

Cloud Deployment/Sharing/Publishing

Cloud interface updates for sharing/publishing will simplify the process

Goal is to simply be able to point anyone to something you’ve saved

CDF/notebook files will each run interactively for a limited number of interactions

Then they independently switch over to static, but downloadable (for player) 
or copyable to the user’s own cloud account

Publishers can buy access by number of “seats”, or set up private clouds

More Information

Website details continue to be updated at:  www.wolfram.com/cdf

Look for some substantial updates to deployment information to come