Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Timeplot: Canvas-based Specialized Charting Tool
Category: Canvas
On July 1st and July 7th, we posted about Timeline from the Simile project.
We're pleased to post about another related project: Timeplot, which is
a canvas-based ajaxy plotting companion to
our Timeline widget (that also supports the same timeline data formats).
Follow the link; the screen shot doesn't do it justice. While you're there, don't miss the comprehensive tutorial, which shows how easy it is to create these charts.
In a nutshell, you do this:
HTML:
and the "data.txt" file is just a CSV file. And the tutorial even shows you how to make it look purty.
2 rating from 287 votes
This just made my day :)
Okay, now this is just cool.
-Ryan
Doesn’t support IE (any version) yet. that’s 90% of browsers out there. But, it is very cool indeed (in FireFox anyway)
:)
– Will G.
This is really pretty slick. For IE support there is always ExCanvas (?), I’m sure it should be doable. The charts are a little noisy, but there is a lot of good functionality there.
68% of browsers for me, not 90%. Germany, official city page ( = visitors from the “general population”), 20 Mio. PI/month.
dig around i know ive seen ExCanvas somewhere in simile’s SVN tree - maybe even in this project, or one of the related ones like timegrid
neato!
That damn tool aint working in Opera.
There is no need to swear, firefox is a free download if you want to play with the canvas timeline :)
For something like this (and I’m throwing this out there) wouldn’t SVG be a much better solution? With it’s cross-browser capability and all?
ExCanvas is nothing new… but in this case it’s rather annoying to hear something like “download a free browser”; see if you tell it to one of your clients who has a browser compatibility list.
I know this might not be the place to ask, but what’s up with the ratings?
re: ratings - my guess is some commerical competitor is trying to vote them down.
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