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Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by jmelloy »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #47
bunkat wrote: post #46

Earlier 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…

Also, D3.js doesn't work on IE, which is a non-started for our app. We're currently evaluating and will probably end up using Highcharts.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by mamcx »

ShirsenduK wrote: post #43
bunkat wrote: post #36

I'm not sure how to get excited by this. Seems weird that customers had to wait until version 3 to get a bubble chart and some basic animation events (though it seems you are still on your own to figure out the transitions). After using d3, charts built like this just feel so limiting and a bit old fashioned - I think it is a testament to the amazing work that Mike Bostock has done.

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 highcharts have better support for touch devices (ie iOS) than the open source options, as far I know...

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by lucisferre »

ratherbefuddled wrote: post #42
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?

It didn't seem complicated to me. You either license a site to use it, license a team of app developers to use it in however many sites you like, or buy an OEM to ship it.

No you licence a "page" to use it. A "web application" is not covered by the licence. The single website licence is nearly useless:

> For use on a simple webpage that is not considered a web application. A web application is a website that has customer specific data or charges for its use. This requires a Developer license.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by verelo »

High charts is AMAZING! I'm a strong supporter of not building things like charts yourself, and have been recently astonished by the amount of custom styling you can apply to Highcharts without modifying any of their code, and keeping your code perfectly clean.

Cant tell you how much i love this product, leaves every charting package i've ever touched in the dust. Keep up the great work!

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by bwilliams18 »

ShirsenduK wrote: post #43
bunkat wrote: post #36

I'm not sure how to get excited by this. Seems weird that customers had to wait until version 3 to get a bubble chart and some basic animation events (though it seems you are still on your own to figure out the transitions). After using d3, charts built like this just feel so limiting and a bit old fashioned - I think it is a testament to the amazing work that Mike Bostock has done.

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 just spent the past two months building an advanced dashboard revolving around complicated charts. After looking at both high charts and d3, it became clear that d3 was the better solution, as it allowed an order of magnitude of increased flexibility.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by saurik »

sosuke wrote: post #28
Frozenlock wrote: post #17

There's also Flotr2: http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2 and Envisionjs: http://www.humblesoftware.com/envision Which are FOSS.

http://dygraphs.com/ is nice too

This is the only graphing library that seems to believe that the challenge is "display lots and lots of data quickly in a legible fashion" as opposed to "take small amounts of data and render it in a way the user will consider pretty". I love dygraphs ;P.

Re: Highcharts 3.0 Beta released

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Post by wschalle »

ahsteele wrote: post #45
Torn wrote: post #19

Anyone know what they use to generate their api documentation at http://api.highcharts.com ? I'm guessing it's built from jsdoc-style comments in the source, but haven't come across js docs that look as good as these

I'm not sure either, but decided to ask the question on Programmers.SE: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/187915/3270 .

I'm actually writing a php code generator to generate an api wrapper for highcharts, and I was really curious about this as well. The interface looks homebrew, but I'm just not sure...
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