What about the other side of this, generating the series data?
Are there many - or any! - general-purpose libraries one can point at a database, choose or write an SQL statement, and it will take care of time and date ranges for you?
Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
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Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#22This error is rather worrying.
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 ( '','1361463235','','0','1','0' )
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#23There's also Flotr2: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2 and Envisionjs: http://www.humblesoftware.com/envision Which are FOSS.
More items for your list.
- D3js http://d3js.org/
- NVD3 http://nvd3.org/
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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.
It says "each person". I think I understand what they mean, but honestly, I'm not sure. For small teams using contractors, this is really unclear.
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#25jtablesession::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 ( 'mbh4nviu3hiahjlihcodeib9c0','1361463774','','0','1','0' )
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#26Visiting 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 proba…
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
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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.
> Use d3 if you don't want to spend the money, it's much more powerful anyway.
I will, and that's the point. I don't see how this in any way invalidates my statements about their product
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#28There's also Flotr2: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2 and Envisionjs: http://www.humblesoftware.com/envision Which are FOSS.
http://dygraphs.com/ is nice too
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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.
Highcharts uses SVG and reverts to UML for older versions of IE.
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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.
They basically want you to pay based on team size. However, I'm not sure how this sort of licensing would be enforceable though. I know of of multiple companies who use HC for free for commercial purposes on the basis that all the charts are behind logins and feel that's ok. If they had a more straightforward pricing scheme I have no doubt most would just pony up the cash.
The other problem with per developer is maintaining compliance. So every time I hire I have to remember I need to get another licence for this on any other products I have that uses this type of stupid boxed-software model. It adds unnecessary overhead that isn't justified for such a small piece of component software. This isn't Visual Studio we are talking about here.
Honestly their pricing is the only reason I'm not using them.