Nice work! The JS breaks on magnification, but I submitted a pull request to fix that right up: https://github.com/nnnick/Chart.js/pull/27
Chart.js is back online
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#82Congrats on being able to open source this and thank you for doing so. Honest question: Is animation really a needed feature for this? The opening animation adds no information value and has the negative effect of making the user think the graphics are actually interactive. I'm sure the animation itself isn't memory/processor intensive but it seems like a really unnecessary feature for a charting library that creates…
(Not having played with chart.js)
If the values change at any point and the display is updated, animation is much, much more than eye-candy. It's cognitive reassurance and an affordance that allows the user to more readily understand what is changing and how it's changing.
(source: I did the work equivalent to a master's thesis in grad school on building a tool for visualizing qualitative data)
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#83This is great. I started to stub out Highcharts for Script# and was wondering how this library compares to it? I did a lot of research and decided to use Highcharts. Can you please list the pros/cons between Chart.js and Highcharts? Thanks!
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#84congrats on being on HN front page for the third time on such a short timeframe! This project must be really loved by the community ;)
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#85This is all what I need for my next (little) project, no need to search anymore.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe "I misunderstood some issues" really means "I misunderstood some issues". Just saying...
Definitely, it's just speculation on my part. However, it would surprise me if he actually misunderstood what his employer said.
Indeed, but I guess, like people have said there is other information we are not privy too. Glad to see it back though. Personally speaking it was not clear to me why it was taken down in the first place.
EDIT: typo
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#87Congrats on being able to open source this and thank you for doing so. Honest question: Is animation really a needed feature for this? The opening animation adds no information value and has the negative effect of making the user think the graphics are actually interactive. I'm sure the animation itself isn't memory/processor intensive but it seems like a really unnecessary feature for a charting library that creates…
The animations on the graph on initial render was one of the reasons we chose a graphing solution. Clients love it.
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#88Ok, is this the best marketing campaign for an open-source project or what?!? I starred it yesterday but my guess is you've got a lot more people on board now!
Ok, is this the best marketing campaign for an open-source project or what? Don't think so: @_nnnick This is all just one big marketing ploy, isn’t it? ;P @DanHarper7 wouldn't that have been amazing? I'm not that smart though unfortunately. https://twitter.com/_nnnick/status/314049798502248448 Edit: Apologies, I initially took your comment as cynical towards Nick :(
Nope, was really just making a joke ;)
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#89Congrats on being able to open source this and thank you for doing so. Honest question: Is animation really a needed feature for this? The opening animation adds no information value and has the negative effect of making the user think the graphics are actually interactive. I'm sure the animation itself isn't memory/processor intensive but it seems like a really unnecessary feature for a charting library that creates…
Animations on graphs have come too far. But i can agree with you on some part that at a few places animations are not needed. If you look at the documentation ( http://www.chartjs.org/docs/ ) then you can choose in the configurations to switch it off for all the graphs. Total power !
I agree. While animation is nice in some ways, it really isn't necessary. Animations nowdays are far too long. Fortunately, it is possible to disable or speed up.
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#90Ok, is this the best marketing campaign for an open-source project or what?!? I starred it yesterday but my guess is you've got a lot more people on board now!
best marketing campaign? I guess I am not seeing what you're seeing. To what are you referring to?
I think it was tongue-in-cheek saying that the publicity from taking it down right after release is giving it better visibility than they could've otherwise.