Also, grafico uses Raphaël, and is a little more feature complete:
http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/
We've been using it for a while (and extended it a bit, too), and pretty happy
with the results. Code's a lot easier to read than g.Raphael. Still a bit
complex, though. API is cleaner in my opinion.
Only downside is it has a dependency on Prototype.
On 09/07/2010, at 2:11 PM, Korny Sietsma 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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