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Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by damoncali »

ricardobeat wrote: post #7
lucisferre wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only it had the most "usable" pricing structure too: http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html One price for a "web page" that's not a "web application" and then pricing per developer? Just ridiculous. Why not add a per CPU surcharge while we're at it?

What's the problem? Per-seat licenses are nothing new, it's how you have always bought Adobe/Microsoft/Autodesk/etc software. Use d3 if you don't want to spend the money, it's much more powerful anyway.

The problem is that it's on a website, and the number of developers can change from day to day.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by Silhouette »

aviswanathan wrote: post #8

Funnel is a big one. I don't think anyone else has this (besides D3 - but you can do basically anything with D3).

They seem to have a very broken presentation of the funnel, though. The example looks more like they've squashed different area sizes into a fixed funnel shape, rather than showing how much the funnel narrows at each step so you can immediately see where you're losing or converting a high proportion of prospects.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by swah »

afshinmeh wrote: post #3
ShirsenduK wrote: post #2

The most usable charting solution keeps getting better.

Agree. I really like their financial charts also.

Very nice. Do you know how they achieve the 1-pixel lines on the chart? I'm supposing they use SVG, like RaphaelJS. This was a little PITA for me in RaphaelJS.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by Ixiaus »

ShirsenduK wrote: post #2

The most usable charting solution keeps getting better.

Google Charts is very usable and they look really good IMHO - and it's open source. I couldn't afford HighCharts license AND they never responded to me when we tried to email them about getting a "deal" as a startup.

https://developers.google.com/chart/

[EDIT] Changed to charts and included link

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by afshinmeh »

swah wrote: post #13
afshinmeh wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. I really like their financial charts also.

Very nice. Do you know how they achieve the 1-pixel lines on the chart? I'm supposing they use SVG, like RaphaelJS. This was a little PITA for me in RaphaelJS.

AFAIK, They use SVG also.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by ricardobeat »

damoncali wrote: post #11
ricardobeat wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the problem? Per-seat licenses are nothing new, it's how you have always bought Adobe/Microsoft/Autodesk/etc software. Use d3 if you don't want to spend the money, it's much more powerful anyway.

The problem is that it's on a website, and the number of developers can change from day to day.

The license is not personal, so if another developer comes along he can take over without a new license.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by masklinn »

ramg wrote: post #9
lucisferre wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only it had the most "usable" pricing structure too: http://shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html One price for a "web page" that's not a "web application" and then pricing per developer? Just ridiculous. Why not add a per CPU surcharge while we're at it?

Looking closer, the "Learn More" link under Single Developer says "Allow Highcharts to be used with an unlimited number of SaaS projects, web applications, intranets, and websites for you or your customers." Based on this, their pricing seems reasonable.

Although the "directly or indirectly" is annoying: 1 developer working on charting integration and 5 working on e.g. database administration? Need a 10 seats license.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by bobsy »

Visiting the site gives this error.

jtablesession::Store Failed DB function failed with error number 1226 User 'highcharts' has exceeded the 'max_updates' resource (current value: 36000) SQL=INSERT INTO `jos_session` ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id` ) VALUES ( '8cre30vqdh3ip8hh0iebn7buq5','1361463112','','0','1','0' )

Googling jos_session reveals the site is built using Joomla..

Should probably consider doing something about this.

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