+1, Great idea and execution. Wondering, do these charts work well when used in emails?
Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
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Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#22Has anyone looked at SVG frameworks like snapsvg[0]? After using d3.js for awhile, I like the idea of doing something more low level in terms of rendering and interacting with svgs. 0: http://snapsvg.io/
I used Snap for an animation on my homepage[0], though that was a relatively simple thing. My impressions of it were generally good, although there was a bug or two with version 0.1 that I was using that caused issues in some browsers, requiring me to move to the dev branch. I see they've released 0.2 now, which should have the fixes.
Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work for the team that maintains Chartserver. It's being deprecated for a number of reasons, none of which you've listed. Mostly, we feel the service has been replaced by JS charting solutions (Google Charts, d3, etc.) which are more flexible and don't have the privacy concerns of Chartserver. Most importantly, the team that developed it has moved on to other work and it hasn't been restaffed. We revisit the deprec…
When is it depreciated exactly. Says 2015, but is that going to be January, or December? (I need to replace them in my app at work).
https://developers.google.com/chart/terms
Again, Chartserver has had a number of stays of execution. Officially, we're killing it in 2015, but it would surprise me. Usage numbers just haven't been what you would expect from a deprecated product.
Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#24Man, this brace.io gang is really making me happy. First formspree, now this. Making Middleman (et al.) sexy.
Edit: I guess Middleman isn't the only SSG :)
Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#25Nice, but its a re-implementation of the Google Chartserver right? (same model, URL describes charts which are returned) The issues Google ran into were as it gets popular you need a more server horse power, and the work of keeping things secure is pretty high. That said I always enjoyed using chartserver :-) so I presume I would enjoy using this. But what I'd really like is a package for python or perl I could load…
I work for the team that maintains Chartserver. It's being deprecated for a number of reasons, none of which you've listed. Mostly, we feel the service has been replaced by JS charting solutions (Google Charts, d3, etc.) which are more flexible and don't have the privacy concerns of Chartserver. Most importantly, the team that developed it has moved on to other work and it hasn't been restaffed. We revisit the deprec…
I've done a ton of work with Chartserver, and I'm continually impressed by how elegant it is in every detail of its implementation. Although, I'm also a huge fan of D3. Not every chart should be built in JavaScript. I can embed it, I can drop it in an email, I can serve up 20 charts on a page in milliseconds, and I can do it equally quickly anywhere in the world.
Services like this, are one of the things that keeps up 'Google's not just in it for the money' cred, I'm going to be really sorry to see it go.
Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#26Nice, but its a re-implementation of the Google Chartserver right? (same model, URL describes charts which are returned) The issues Google ran into were as it gets popular you need a more server horse power, and the work of keeping things secure is pretty high. That said I always enjoyed using chartserver :-) so I presume I would enjoy using this. But what I'd really like is a package for python or perl I could load…
I work for the team that maintains Chartserver. It's being deprecated for a number of reasons, none of which you've listed. Mostly, we feel the service has been replaced by JS charting solutions (Google Charts, d3, etc.) which are more flexible and don't have the privacy concerns of Chartserver. Most importantly, the team that developed it has moved on to other work and it hasn't been restaffed. We revisit the deprec…
Also the look is brilliant, especially with the current trends in flat design. I so infrequently see it used to it's full potential.
Check out: http://smashrun.com/chris.lukic/overview It uses both D3 and ChartServer, but there's no way I'll ever get the page load to something comparable using only d3.
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#27This is a good idea. One thought for the team as you're building this: Is it possible to make an alternative version of the link that loads up the same graphic in JPG format?
I could see this going viral on sites like Pinterest or Tumblr, but I found that when I added this into Tumblr, it wouldn't save the post.
Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work for the team that maintains Chartserver. It's being deprecated for a number of reasons, none of which you've listed. Mostly, we feel the service has been replaced by JS charting solutions (Google Charts, d3, etc.) which are more flexible and don't have the privacy concerns of Chartserver. Most importantly, the team that developed it has moved on to other work and it hasn't been restaffed. We revisit the deprec…
I've done a ton of work with Chartserver, and I'm continually impressed by how elegant it is in every detail of its implementation. Although, I'm also a huge fan of D3. Not every chart should be built in JavaScript. I can embed it, I can drop it in an email, I can serve up 20 charts on a page in milliseconds, and I can do it equally quickly anywhere in the world. Services like this, are one of the things that keeps u…
It's not dead yet.
Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#29"no Javascript" is very misleading. There are several tags embedded in each svg, including at least two scripts that are loaded from external sources. In fact, nearly 1/3 of the data transferred for the first graph is javascript[0]. https://gist.github.com/hughes/c876b02aa06f897c99e2
Hm, how does this work? How can JavaScript be executed like that when it's included as an image?
Re: Show HN: Easy SVG charts for your static site, no JavaScript
#30"no Javascript" is very misleading. There are several tags embedded in each svg, including at least two scripts that are loaded from external sources. In fact, nearly 1/3 of the data transferred for the first graph is javascript[0]. https://gist.github.com/hughes/c876b02aa06f897c99e2
Hm, how does this work? How can JavaScript be executed like that when it's included as an image?