+100 for simile.
IMO the curved lines in dojo 0.4.3 are really bogus and basically lie
about how much data you have. I'd recommend you not use them if
possible.
The mouse-over feature is very useful, you can easily read actual
numbers off the graph
multi-series display is pretty much essential IMO to get a reasonable
view of data on only one web page.
The multi-series display example you point to indicates the meaning
of each data series in text above the graph. How is this worse than
labelling the y-axis?
thanks
david jencks
On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:29 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.
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
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