Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#1

Post by kortina » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 7:46 PM UTC

I'm looking for something that looks good crossbrowser, as well as on iPhone/iPad, Android, and is fairly easy to use.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#2

Post by tmlee » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 7:49 PM UTC

this may be something you could use, http://www.highcharts.com/ I like it, it's cross browser compatible!

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#3

Post by kortina » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 7:53 PM UTC

tmlee wrote: post #2

this may be something you could use, http://www.highcharts.com/ I like it, it's cross browser compatible!

Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks for the Rx. Is it pretty quick to work with for you?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#4

Post by tmlee » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 8:20 PM UTC

kortina wrote: post #3

tmlee wrote: post #2

this may be something you could use, http://www.highcharts.com/ I like it, it's cross browser compatible!

Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks for the Rx. Is it pretty quick to work with for you?

yup documentation is nice.. with clean javascript wrapper and highly customizable

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#5

Post by agbegin » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

http://zingchart.com renders in HTML5 Canvas and/or SVG, so it will render on older Androids that don't have SVG support. Also VML for auto fallback to IE6 w/out need for ExCanvas.

transparency: I'm on the team. abegin[at]zingchart.com ^Andrew

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#6

Post by jfdi » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 10:12 PM UTC

tmlee wrote: post #2

this may be something you could use, http://www.highcharts.com/ I like it, it's cross browser compatible!

i was hacking around under the covers of Mixpanel's 'Platform' a while back and if memory serves, they wrapped highcharts into their api for that product.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#7

Post by lemma » Fri, Jul 15, 2011, 12:13 AM UTC

There's also http://www.rgraph.net/

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#8

Post by karterk » Fri, Jul 15, 2011, 2:03 AM UTC

Go for Google charts, it's really awesome.

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Re: Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

#9

Post by kortina » Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

karterk wrote: post #8

Go for Google charts, it's really awesome. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

I always felt there were lots of gymnastics required to get data into a suitable format for Google charts (filling zeroes in time series, tough to work with multiple series, etc)