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
> >>
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