SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

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Post by rohanjon » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 1:22 AM UTC

SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data
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Re: SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

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Post by pygy_ » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 1:37 AM UTC

RaphaelJS offers the advantages of SVG with an IE fallback. It's a Javascript library that outputs VML in IE6+ and SVG everywhere else.

The graphs can be manipulated in JS after their creation to create animations.

http://raphaeljs.com/

Re: SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

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Post by 3pt14159 » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 1:38 AM UTC

Naw, SVG is a good way some of the time. It's very context specific.

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Post by hc5 » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 2:07 AM UTC

It's worth noting that Android browsers don't support SVG (yet).

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Post by redwood » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 2:09 AM UTC

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Re: SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

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Post by fletchowns » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 2:09 AM UTC

If you are interested in SVG charting engines, check out Highcharts. Used them on a project recently and really liked how it turned out. It's a shame that VML performance in IE is so terrible when SVG performance in Chrome is so awesome.

http://www.highcharts.com/

Re: SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

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Post by magicseth » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 2:40 AM UTC

Ironically, Adobe used to be the biggest supporter of SVG... before they purchased Flash. Their svg renderer was by far the best in the field at the time, and supported lots of wonderful features, including great ECMAscript (Javascript), had the ability to build AJAX-like interactions using remote requests, and was fundamentally awesome.

It never made it out of beta and got killed when Flash became Adobe's new sweetheart. Very sad.

Re: SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

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Post by jacobolus » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 3:17 AM UTC

pygy_ wrote: post #2

RaphaelJS offers the advantages of SVG with an IE fallback. It's a Javascript library that outputs VML in IE6+ and SVG everywhere else. The graphs can be manipulated in JS after their creation to create animations. http://raphaeljs.com/

Also has the disadvantage of adding a lot of unnecessary overhead to SVG, changing how you interact with it, and preventing you from using lots of SVG features. For anything that needs much redrawing or interaction, the IE fallback can be extremely slow.

If you have reasonably simple needs or can adapt an existing Raphael demo, go for it. For my own projects, I don’t think it’s worth it, but YMMV.

Protovis is a much more exciting SVG framework.

Re: SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data

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Post by megaman821 » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 4:21 AM UTC

fletchowns wrote: post #7

If you are interested in SVG charting engines, check out Highcharts. Used them on a project recently and really liked how it turned out. It's a shame that VML performance in IE is so terrible when SVG performance in Chrome is so awesome. http://www.highcharts.com/

Highcharts is definitely one of the most impressive chart solutions I have seen.

I don't remember its VML performance being particularly slow but I do know its' SVG performance screams in IE9.