non-flash based graphs?

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Permalink Reply by Spike Washburn on April 9, 2009 at 4:14pm

Flash gives us a lot of flexibility for making interactive and zooming graphs, but I understand some folks disapprove of Flash in general. Unfortunately switching graphing engines means we'd have to put other value-adding features on the shelf, which we're reluctant to do while we're racing against Google :-). If you just need a copy of the chart as an image, you can right click on chart and save it as an image.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Schmidt on April 12, 2009 at 10:59am

> Flash gives us a lot of flexibility for making interactive and zooming graphs
I tried your graphs but I wasn't able to do zoom (just maximize - but that is a page reload too - so it's no "interactive zoom"), also I didn't observed the graphs as being interactive. Or I was missing something?

> If you just need a copy of the chart as an image, you can right click on chart and save it as an image.
Trying to do that, several antivirus products complain about the action :(.
Also, independent of the displayed graph (or the data source), the proposed name is always "anychart.png" - so it's not very efficient to constantly rename them.

If I see right, anychart is using an XML approach for the displayed data. Many other charting solutions can do that too so maybe it would be much simpler to replace.

> Unfortunately switching graphing engines means we'd have to put other value-adding features
> on the shelf, which we're reluctant to do while we're racing against Google :-).
Of course not :), but maybe the "race" it's not that much about simply having more features than Google but being easier to use :). e.g. by:
- several templates to start a project (I guess this could be stax independent - once you have an article about how users could do it)
- SSO that is not tied to you (google authentication is tied to google so they know "everything" :) ).
- simple and clean pricing scheme (the google one looks quite complicated)
- letting other know what you provide - by now, even a few days old, many java users have heard about google appengine/java because of articles posted on TSS and dzone.

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