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That's pretty cool. After playing around with this some, I'm glad that I won't just get to use it, but that I'll also get the chance to learn something from the code. I don't believe I've ever seen such nicely routed auto-updating paths before in Javascript.

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Thanks. We still need to clean up the code a bit, and should be publishing more docs on how the thing is structured this week, so keep your eye on our github repo.

Great work! A suggestion: to make the text searchable using Ctrl-f, please render the maps using SVG instead of canvas. For a big mind map this is indispensable.

Good thinking - we already planned an svg spike (probably using raphaeljs) :)

is search the only thing that would be better with SVG?

we opted for canvas as it gives us better visualisation capabilities in the future. we could easily provide searching with canvas by overriding ctrl+f.

I haven't tested this but I think search engines should automatically be able to index SVGs, thus making the public maps Googlable.

In general I like SVG because it doesn't try to hide the data it's displaying, unlike flash/canvas. Although I now remember seeing a hybrid div/canvas implementation which buys you best of both worlds albeit at some added complexity.

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