This looks quite awesome!
As a quick suggestion, the wiki (https://github.com/polychart/polychart2/wiki) recommends using github as the CDN which I thought was highly discouraged. However I can't find any official stance on this anymore..did it change?
Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library
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#22This uses Raphael. Which is awesome. Alternatives to Raphael is d3. Alternatives all together is NVD3. If you haven't seen this one, go check it out.
Agrees with you that Raphael is very awesome. A difference between Polychart.js and NVD3 is its flexibility: the way one can overlay charts, or even plot any change in polar coordinates. (We took a lot of ideas from R and ggplot2, something data scientists use).
We share your love with d3 also, which unfortunately will not ever work in IE. So until the rest of the world catches up... ;)
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#23Really good, but the per-developer pricing model doesn't make sense. Just stick to one price for commercial use.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll be reviewing the pricing model per the comments from HN. Would love to hear more on what you think would make sense :) team@polychart.com
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#24i would say not bad but the fact you are asking me to pay to use it when i can have something like d3 is a bit of a joke
why is everyone these days so afraid of investing time? d3 is well worth the time invested learning!
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#25$300 for a single developer, and the EULA says I can't transfer this license to another person?
We'll be reviewing the licensing option per feedback from HN. Please send a note to team@polychart.com, would love to hear more about what you think would be reasonable :)
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#26This looks interesting, but what are the advantages of this over Vega, which is free? https://github.com/trifacta/vega
It's hard to evaluate when the projects are so new. It was a similar problem with Crossfilter/Datavore/Data.js/Miso Dataset when they all came out.
If I had to pick, I'd go with Vega because I think it has the most potential to develop a community around it. Especially as a bridge between Python/R and D3.js through JSON. Think iPython notebooks, R Shiny, etc.
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#27This looks interesting, but what are the advantages of this over Vega, which is free? https://github.com/trifacta/vega
The interaction model is something that very few charting libraries have. Also we try to make Polychart.js very easy to get started in, so that creating a simple line or bar chart would take minimal amount of code. Vega is amazing as well for how flexible it is.
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#28This looks quite awesome! As a quick suggestion, the wiki ( https://github.com/polychart/polychart2/wiki ) recommends using github as the CDN which I thought was highly discouraged. However I can't find any official stance on this anymore..did it change?
Take a peek at the headers:
$ curl -I https://raw.github.com/Polychart/polychart2/develop/polychart2.standalone.js
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library
#29This uses Raphael. Which is awesome. Alternatives to Raphael is d3. Alternatives all together is NVD3. If you haven't seen this one, go check it out.
Agrees with you that Raphael is very awesome. A difference between Polychart.js and NVD3 is its flexibility: the way one can overlay charts, or even plot any change in polar coordinates. (We took a lot of ideas from R and ggplot2, something data scientists use). We share your love with d3 also, which unfortunately will not ever work in IE. So until the rest of the world catches up... ;)
d3 does work out of the box in IE version 9 and up. With some small modifications, you can still use d3 without even earlier versions of IE. New York Times routinely makes d3 graphics that run in even older versions of IE plus all modern browsers.
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#30Quick note: you have a typo on the Licensing page, where it says "Commerical" instead of "Commercial". Given the large font, it really stood out!