On 1/4/06, Robin Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm. All of those examples look a little ugly to me, to be honest. > I'd be at least -0, possibly -1, on including sparkplots on the TG > main page. > > Now, some other form of graphs, I'd be in favor of. Something like > what rrdtool can put out, for example. (See > http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/gallery/index.en.html > and http://www.cacti.net/screenshots.php for examples of rrdtool's > output).
There's a big difference between those graphs and a sparkplot. vinj was talking about something unobtrusive on the front page. Maybe the sparkplots can be made to look a little classier. I'm an admitted Tufte groupee, so I think sparkplots are cool -- but only if they fit the entirety of the page well. Tufte's all about good information presentation, and sparkplots are a very condensed way to provide info. But, our home page is a marketing device... so, we'll see if they fit. (A sparkplots widget would be cool. Unfortunately, that would require a capability widgets don't yet have: the ability to respond to requests themselves, since images come in on a separate request.) Kevin Kevin
