Drawing Graphs on Your Browser?

Posted by Cliff on Monday July 21, 2003 @08:43PM from the harvard's-got-nothing-on-these dept.

Pieroxy queries: "I recently had a look at various ways to draw a graph (lines, bar chart, pie chart...) for a web-based enterprise application. As we need some interactivity, the GIF image generated on the server-side is not an option. Here is the list of technologies I can think of: Flash is probably over kill and a closed technology. Java is very flexible but slow (to start and run). SVG (discussed here) still requires a plugin. VML is supported only on IE5+, but it is natively supported. Which one of these technologies is the more flexible and interactive? Is it reasonable to require a plugin from the end users of our enterprise application? Is IE5+ a wide enough target for an enterprise application?"

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Re:Premptive Strike at IE zealots by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-21 21:11 · Score: -1, Troll

SVG is STANDARDS COMPLIANT (as you put it), due to it being a standard.

In my experience, Opera is a necessary evil on Linux, simply because IE isn't available.

As the grandparent pointed out, you are most certainly a reactionary monkey.
Re:I can answer the last two by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-21 21:20 · Score: -1, Troll

>> Surely you can do something with DHTML/Javascript to dynamically resize bar charts.

Not in Netscape and Mozilla. You see, they are a big pile of poo and wouldn't know what to do with a piece of JavaScript if it came with an instruction manual.