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.
IMHO, as much as I dislike saying this.. IE support should be mandatory
considering the number of users who use it. The disadvantages of Dojo
1.0.1 sound pretty minor compared the other options not supporting browsers.
Regards,
John
