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Peity - Little charts for little projects

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Re: Peity - Little charts for little projects

#45
post #13

Very interesting, but most of these examples look like they would be fairly nonsensical to someone without JavaScript enabled (especially the line chart). To say nothing of those who use screen readers. Is there a handy way of providing some more meaningful 'alt' text? Perhaps just ignore text in the element? (I didn't check -- you may already be doing this, but I didn't see it mentioned).

Who isn't using javascript?

Re: Peity - Little charts for little projects

#46
post #37

Defining colors with the non-W3C-defined term 'colour' is cute, but annoyingly inconsistent with browser terminology.

Just because it's a standard doesn't mean it's spelt correctly ;) HTTP referer [sic] comes to mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

Re: Peity - Little charts for little projects

#47
post #12
post #3

also: http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/#s-about

So let's say I don't care about compatibility, what is the real differences between Peity and jQuery sparklines?

Size would be one, Peity is 5k uncompressed, sparklines is 119k - big difference there.

Re: Peity - Little charts for little projects

#48
post #44

This looks better than anything else I have seen in graph tools. Shame about the lack of fall-back options, though. What does it look like, if a browser doesn't support the graphs? Do they just disappear?

I was running without javascript, and was confused for a second when there were no example graphs.
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