Martijn van Rheenen wrote: >> Nope. Google's charts are straight images, so they are generally the >> better choice. There is usually little reason to force Flash on your >> users for something this simple. >> > Indeed they are, images, I saw that too. But you will not be able to > generate these charts when a user is not online, would you? Or, not able > to > connect to google (like in a very strict intranet environment ;) )
No, of course Google Charts won't do anything if Google's chart service can't be reached. > > if you want the charts to be 'interactive', though, (like zooming and > scrolling around the data real-time) Flash is not that bad. I admit, I > hate > to use it too, but OpenFlashChart is the only open source component I > could > find that delivers almost all this functionality without requiring a > connection to some other website.... How about the visualization components from the SIMILE project ( http://simile.mit.edu )? The ones such as Timeplot are pure DHTML/JS, and they don't rely on external services as far as I know. There seem to be some projects aimed at using these with Rails, but I don't know how well they work. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
