On Dec 6, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Erik B. Craig wrote:
All,
Currently the monitoring client is using Dojo 0.4.3 charting, which
does not necessarily behave as expected on Firefox/Safari on a mac,
or on IE6 on Windows.
Errmmm, I stand corrected by myself, it looks like in 0.4.3 things are
working as expected on Mac... at least in Firefox and Safari on OS
10.5.1, my experimentation was done with Dojo 0.4.2 previously.
Internet Explorer is still hosed.
I consider this to be a shortcoming, and given the new version of
Dojo available (1.0.1), began investigating migrating the monitoring
client over to the new version of Dojo, only to find that the new
version of dojo appears to be a significant rewrite of the old code
base, leaving out some features that I consider to be very visually
pleasing and important for statistics viewing. While rummaging
through the Dojo forums, I stumbled upon another Javascript graphing
framework called Timeplot, which is part of the SIMILE project at
MIT, and while this has it's own set of limitations... I'm trying to
figure out the lesser of three evils before it comes a time that
this monitoring plugin will be released, so that I have enough time
(read: 3-5 days) to migrate the javascript generation over to
something new if necessary.
I have created a small demonstration page that shows all three
options graphed with the same data series, as well as weighing some
of the advantages/disadvantages I could come up with,
Please have a look, and let me know your thoughts.
http://people.apache.org/~ecraig/graphdemo/
Personally, I think it would be really cool if we could use the
Timeplot graphing libraries, as it is all BSD licensed and therefore
friendly I believe (right, Kevan?)... and also EXTREMELY cool for
showing multiple data series in one chart.
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Thanks,
Erik B. Craig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
