ROOT has been making progress with regards to one of the points addressed in the post. Regarding needing a special program to view an HDF5 file, root has develo

ROOT has been making progress with regards to one of the points addressed in the post. Regarding needing a special program to view an HDF5 file, root has developed a JavaScript viewer which can display data and stored plots and graphs. It's pretty cool, HDF5 could do something similar if it doesn't already exist. https://root.cern.ch/js/ https://root.cern.ch/js/