Notebooks and CDF
An update on recent CDF details up this point 
and moving forward with notebooks

André Kuzniarek
Executive Director, Document and Media Systems
Wolfram Research

Quick Summary of Current State: 
iOS Player Released Last Year

Interactive manipulation becomes available via:

Cloud account login     – or –

Files saved from an Enterprise product     – or –

One-time in-app purchase

Quick Summary of Current State: 
11.3 CDF Player released mid-March

Minor updates/bug fixes

Start-up screen redesigned since v11

Clearer Player Pro upgrade indicator

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

Slight changes made to Desktop file menu for CDF export:

No longer a separate CDF Export item, just Preview

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

Quick Summary of Current State: 
No more web plugin

Notebook Archive driven by cloud

https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/nbarch/search.html?Query=plot
https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/nbarch/search.html?Query=method
https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/nbarch/search.html?Query=algorithm

Demonstrations site over 80% populated 
with cloud-based primary examples

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BesselFunctionLissajousFigures/
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/GeneratingALemniscateIIRotatingLine/
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/EyringPolanyiVersusExponentialModelForChemicalReactions/
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RotatingSquareTilings
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SolvingMultiplicationEquations/

Demonstration Resource Objects

Any Demonstrations is now available to your session as a resource object:

ResourceData[
"Demonstrations Project: Toroidal Transmission"]

ResourceData["Demonstrations Project: Voronoi Diagrams"]

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

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

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

The New:
Notebooks Are Back

Here’s why

Jupyter

CoCalc

RStudio

Beaker

Zeppelin

Spark

Kyso

They all promote the use of notebooks of some kind or another that are variations on what Wolfram invented

When our patents expired, Jupyter was upfront about copying our interface ideas. They’ve done well at focusing on the basics for simple and solid web-based documents, but our goal remains to lead and innovate across all platforms.

The New:
Notebooks Are Back

No more FreeCDF

Share-alike terms were hard to explain clearly and somewhat off-putting. 
Now we just focus on commercial vs. non-commercial.

CDF requires a deployment process that signs the files for player. 
We now let unsigned notebook operate similarly in player, but no terms 
attached other than non-commercial use.

EnterpiseCDF remains

CDF has always been about deployment, and commercial application and publishing deployments remain the domain of our Enterprise products and EnterpriseCDF.

The New:
More Information

Current page

www.wolfram.com/notebooks

Additional new page coming

www.wolfram.com/featureset/notebooks