The g.Raphael charts are a nice start, imho, but not very complete.  The
barcharts are probably among the best, and I think there are ways to set
labels (you'll probably need to view the source).

But there are some common things that are completely missing from the
g.raphael stuff, that might be some work to implement:
- decent date ranges and date scale labelling
- log scales of any kind
It was pretty slow at getting changes and bug fixes for a while - now that
Dmitry is being paid to do this, things might speed up.

The big plus of g.raphael is that the source is reasonably clean and it's
based on Raphael, so it's easy to hack.

Other options I've played with:
- jqplot is nice for quickly doing reasonably styled graphs, has it's own
limits but it's pretty powerful
- flot looked nice, but I had some pain with it; can't really remember what
now, it's probably another viable option
- protovis http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ is what I'm currently using
(mostly - I fall back to pure Raphael for some stuff) - it's a quite
powerful library for complex visualisations.  The big negative is that it is
all canvas based, so no IE support at all.

- Korny

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Robert Gravina <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 9 July 2010 10:35, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I *was* hoping someone had built something in Raphael - it seems the
> obvious
> > choice for graphically pretty widgets, rather than stuffing around with
> css
> > and images.
>
> Actually I'm also working with bar charts in gRaphael. The default bar
> char looks great, but it doesn't seem to support labels (in the
> framework itself).
>
> Has anyone done this? It is reasonably simple or is getting the labels
> aligned/trimmed etc. a fair bit of work?
>
> Robert
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