There's also Flotr2: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2 and Envisionjs: http://www.humblesoftware.com/envision Which are FOSS.
I'm using jqplot: http://www.jqplot.com/
If you are using PHP, check out http://phpchart.net. It's based on jqplot.
Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
51–60 of 68 posts
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this is a common misconception. Once you wrap your head around d3, building charts is just about as easy as figuring out the required configuration for a Highcharts chart (even complex charts are generally only 30 lines of code). If you really don't care how it is done, there are solutions like nvd3.js that have created prepackaged charts. Based on the extremely limited customizations available and poor perfo…
> Once you wrap your head around d3 Key point here. Highcharts' customers are companies and website builders that don't have, get, or take the time to wrap their heads around D3, they just need to chuck a graph or two on their site(s), then move on to the next thing. It's not idealistic, but it's the reality. I'm personally surprised there's not a lot more commercial JS libraries like Highcharts out there, seems to m…
phpChart (http://phpchart.net) is a commercial charting solution but based on jqplot, a FOSS.
FusionCharts (http://fusioncharts.com) is another successful commercial product for charts.
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#53What 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?
How about drawing charts based on a datagrid that is populated from database like this?
http://phpgrid.com/example/phpgrid-phpchart-integration-with...
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#54Cool, we are using Highcharts for years at quintly. Great to see that they are making progress.
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#55Congratulations, it looks great. Nicer than Flot. For my purposes, I'll stick with Flot since its free of licensing fees (at least as far as I can tell). But if I had a budget to work with, Highcharts is appealing.
I wish it was more affordable too. I believe it was only $100 a couple of years ago. That was almost OK as a price to try it out, but the current pricing puts it out of my range for now.
It's lowest price is $80 but doesn't include a developer license (another $360) and only can be used on a "simple webpage" not a web application. The last part is confusing. What exatcly does it mean by "simple webpage"? Does it mean a static web page? If I'm building a ecommerce website, I guess I can't use it?
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish it was more affordable too. I believe it was only $100 a couple of years ago. That was almost OK as a price to try it out, but the current pricing puts it out of my range for now.
It's lowest price is $80 but doesn't include a developer license (another $360) and only can be used on a "simple webpage" not a web application. The last part is confusing. What exatcly does it mean by "simple webpage"? Does it mean a static web page? If I'm building a ecommerce website, I guess I can't use it?
These questions and more are adresssed in the FAQ: http://shop.highsoft.com/faq
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a customer, having few fancy charts isn't that important. But the ease with which allows customizations and the support it provides is more important. D3.js, GoogleCharts, Flotr2, etc. are too complex to customize. When it comes to building a product and not care about how to get your charts done, Highcharts is the best solution.
I think this is a common misconception. Once you wrap your head around d3, building charts is just about as easy as figuring out the required configuration for a Highcharts chart (even complex charts are generally only 30 lines of code). If you really don't care how it is done, there are solutions like nvd3.js that have created prepackaged charts. Based on the extremely limited customizations available and poor perfo…
Thanks for the link to nvd3.
I'm in the not-enough-time-to-understand-d3 camp, but maybe that will change. In the meantime, I've found it easy to get something going fast with the highcharts tools.
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#58The 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
Google charts is noticeably laggy at around 200+ data points. You can take a look here.
https://www.google.com/finance
HighCharts/Stock is magnitudes faster.
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#59There's also Flotr2: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2 and Envisionjs: http://www.humblesoftware.com/envision Which are FOSS.
I use Dojo's charts. http://dojotoolkit.org/features/graphics-and-charting
Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released
#60There's also Flotr2: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2 and Envisionjs: http://www.humblesoftware.com/envision Which are FOSS.
Google Chart Tools is also quite nice: https://developers.google.com/chart/ Actually, this is a perfect time to ask: I've been trying to find the best FOSS charting tool for a (for-profit) RoR app I'm building. Google-visualr seems to be the easiest to use: https://github.com/winston/google_visualr I made a list of other possibilities here: http://bernardomenez.es/graphing-on-rails Any tips on a good gem/framework to…
There is morris.js: http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/
It has been featured in a railscast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/223-charts-graphs-revised