The campaign monitor guys had a write up recently that explained why they didn't go with Raphaël and what they used instead. If you interested…
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> wrote: > For charts, check this out > > http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html > > The API is damn easy to use. Check their terms and conditions and data > privacy sections. Might be relevant depending for who you're doing the > work. > > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com > > kornys on twitter/fb/gtalk/gwave www.sietsma.com/korny > > "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > > that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > > isn't thinking of" > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > http://crazyhollywood.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
