Removed all mpld3 support

doc/Examples/index.rst

@@ -58,11 +58,6 @@ Extensions
 Examples of how the core functionality offered by HoloViews may be
 extended in new (and unexpected!) directions:
 
-* `Interactive plots with mpld3
-  <http://philippjfr.com/blog/interactive-plots-with-holoviews-and-mpld3/>`_:
-  Example usage of the mpld3 rendering backend allowing you to
-  generate D3.js-based plots with interactive widgets.
-
 * `Using HoloViews from Julia
   <http://philippjfr.com/blog/interfacing-holoviews-with-julia/>`_: 
   A prototype interface to allow HoloViews to be used from the Julia

doc/Tutorials/Options.ipynb

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "metadata": {},
    "source": [
-    "``style`` options are passed directly to the underlying rendering backend that actually draws the plots, allowing you to control the details of how it behaves.  The default backend is matplotlib, but there are other backends either using matplotlib's options (e.g. ``mpld3``), or their own sets of options (e.g. [``bokeh``](Bokeh_Backend) ).\n",
+    "``style`` options are passed directly to the underlying rendering backend that actually draws the plots, allowing you to control the details of how it behaves.  The default backend is matplotlib, but there are other backends either using matplotlib's options (e.g. ``nbagg``), or their own sets of options (e.g. [``bokeh``](Bokeh_Backend) ).\n",
     "\n",
     "For whichever backend has been selected, HoloViews can tell you which options are supported, but you will need to see the plotting library's own documentation (e.g. [matplotlib](http://matplotlib.org/contents.html), [bokeh](http://bokeh.pydata.org)) for the details of their use.\n",
     "\n",

doc/install.rst

@@ -39,10 +39,9 @@ packages that provide additional functionality in HoloViews::
 
   pip install 'holoviews[extras]'
 
-This option installs all the required and recommended packages, plus
-the optional `mpld3 <http://mpld3.github.io/>`_, 
-`pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>`_ and 
-`Seaborn <http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/>`_ libraries.
+This option installs all the required and recommended packages,
+including the `pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>`_ and `Seaborn
+<http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/>`_ libraries.
 
 Lastly, to get *everything*, including `cyordereddict
 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cyordereddict>`_ to enable optional

holoviews/plotting/mpl/comms.py

@@ -19,13 +19,6 @@
 target.append(img)
 """
 
-mpld3_msg_handler = """
-/* Backend specific body of the msg_handler, updates displayed frame */
-target = $('#fig_el{comm_id}');
-target.children().each(function () {{ $(this).remove() }});
-mpld3.draw_figure("fig_el{comm_id}", msg);
-"""
-
 class NbAggCommSocket(CommSocket):
     """
     NbAggCommSocket subclasses the matplotlib CommSocket allowing