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I'm looking for (javascript or HTML-based) chart libraries that work on Internet Explorer. Any suggestions? Interactivity is a plus, but not necessary.
I've tried using Flot, but I'm having trouble getting it to work in IE8 (though a recent patch fixed it for IE9). I've also used the Google Chart API, but something a little more easily customizable would be preferred.
It depends a bit on what all you need to accomplish with your library,
but maybe you'll find these musings useful...
You can do quite a bit with just CSS
and make your own "library", albeit a limited one,
for graphs such as horizontal bar charts.
For instance:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/bargraph/demo.html
http://applestooranges.com/blog/post/css-for-bar-graphs/
jQuery Sparklines is not a true "library", either,
but it has some great options, and it works all the way
back to IE 6. Definitely underrated.
http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/
Highcharts could be a good bet.
http://www.highcharts.com/
If Protovis had full support for IE, it might have to be
considered the best, because it adheres to best practices for data visualization.
However, it doesn't have the world's most accessible api, and it doesn't support IE, at least not entirely - read issue 15:
http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
http://code.google.com/p/protovis-js/issues/detail?id=15
Amcharts has flash-based charts at the moment, but take note:
I believe they are working on javascript library for their charts.
If and when they do come out with their library, I have a feeling
it will be pretty good.
http://www.amcharts.com/
Please also consider this when choosing a library:
if you see a plethora of 3-d stacked pie charts, or glossy bars, or drop-shadows,
then be careful: it's a good bet the makers of those charts didn't create them with
data visualization best practices in mind.
For any JavaScript chart library to work on IE 6,7,8, they need to render the chart in VML. Hence, libraries rendering using SVG or Canvas only wouldn't work (hence d3.js based solutions wouldn't work). The following libraries currently have support on IE 6,7,8 as they use a hybrid of SVG and VML:
FusionCharts JavaScript Charting # http://www.fusioncharts.com
HighCharts # http://www.highcharts.com
Any JavaScript charting library built on top of Raphael JS e.g., amcharts, gRaphael would also work on IE6,7,8.
have you tried telerik
http://www.telerik.com/
i did not use it myself, but a friend of mine thinks it is doing the job.
Check out the recently released amCharts JavaScript bundle. It brings all the interactivity of the Flash charts but in JS/HTML5.
I've used jqPlot in the past and it worked well for me. It's a jQuery plugin though; not sure if that matters to you or not.
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I have used a few javascript frameworks in my career as a developer. Namely jquery, moo tools and atlas. But all of my experience is surrounding professional corporate site development. I am currently working on a game that will have a very rich UI. I am contemplating implementing the UI entirely in javascript and HTML. So right now I'm in the process of researching my options in that regard. Is there a javascript framework out there that I can use that will help me create a rich game UI?
Specifically I need to animate characters and effects. This can be frame by frame if necessary or even hinged like what a lot of flash animations like to use. The ideal framework would have built in functionality to take art assets and perhaps an XML payload that when interpreted would describe how the art assets relate to eachother. For frame by frame this would be a way for me to tell it what sequence the images come in and how fast to switch the frames. For a hinge-type framework it would be a way for me to tell it where to position the arms, legs, where joints are and allow me to group specific joint movements into animations. Lastly the ideal framework would support paper doll functionality where I can use layering to put a pair of glasses on a character for example, or different clothing or hair color.
I realize that most likely the ideal I describe above is not available but if there is something that gets me closer to my ideal from jquery or other similar frameworks it will help me in my decision.
Thanks
Your asking for something far too specific here. When it comes to rendering games to the screen you have 3 mainstream non-plugin options
Canvas
The canvas is a raster based display. You can use a narrow abstraction on the canvas like easel.js or a heavy abstraction like The render engine. Now these probably don't have the fine grained features you want.
The reason they don't is performance. Highly performant code and high level abstractions do not go hand in hand. You will find that using the a heavy abstraction over a lightweight one comes at a serious performance cost.
SVG
You can use SVG, which renders as vector based graphics. A good abstraction library for SVG is rapheal. Again there are no high level abstraction libraries or frameworks for what your looking for simply because of performance costs.
DOM
You can also render by simply using DOM manipulation. Any library like jQuery or MooTools will do for this. If you want to use HTML UI elements rather then customly generated ones you can use some of the heavy weight UI toolkits like Sencha, SproutCore and Cappucino.
There isn't anything generic and mainstream out there to make your life easy yet. You can look at some javacript game engines like crafty
Javascript Game frameworks:
Impact JS
Akihabara
GameQuery
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We are looking for a nice javascript-based library for a web charting application we have been asked to do. The charts will be accessible and should actually be nice to interact with via mobile devices (iOS, Android, and the like). The user will be able to drill-down into some datasets, so the snappier (both processing graphics and loading data) and the more interactive, the better.
Nowadays, there are countless options out there, and many aspects to look at. Based on my research, I have put together the following list. Apologies beforehand for any mistake, it is not intended to be 100% complete or accurate.. but I think that still useful:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0As7T_22rXSbtdF9YeklwcUVXSEdwQnN0a0FvcWpoU2c&output=html
What is your opinion? Do you have any experiences in such kind of application? Maybe some candidate I am missing?
We are narrowing down the choice, but I am still not sure as for what choice is the best bet. Some questions that pop-up in my mind:
Different ways of rendering the chart (SVG/VML versus HTML 5 canvas). Which one is more suited to browsers in mobile devices? Which one is more suited to user interaction?
Making it look good. Which libraries allow to easily tweak appearance? Is CSS really powerful for this?
You missed out Sencha Touch
first of all, if mobile support is a must-have for you, discard SVG as a solution. It's not widespread supported. Canvas in the other hand, is not supported by old versions of IE, but can be simulated via VML with the exCanvas.js library.
About making it looking good, CSS has nothing to do with these libraries. CSS affects DOM elements, and canvas content is binary data. Canvas is, as the word says, a blank canvas for you to draw in via a Javascript API. Once you draw a line in a canvas element, that information is just pixels in the canvas.
BTW, is a good list the one you collected, and I'm pretty sure it's quite complete. The only intruder in it is Dundas. First of all, is a .Net library, and generates the charts in the server. Second, is deprecated. Dundas is no longer selling components, they're totally engaged with their dashboards solution.
Hope I'd help.
I've chosen Flot for several projects now and it has worked well. It's well documented with lots of examples, configurable, looks great, and is extensible. It is dependent on jQuery.
You might also want to add dhtmlxChart to your list.
It's a Canvas based JavaScript charting library that supports different chart types: line, pie, area, bar, radar, etc. dhtmlxChart is distributed under GPL v2 (commercial license is needed to use it in a proprietary project).
(Disclaimer: I work for DHTMLX)
I know this is an old question, but we had to do a similar research recently.
We focused our study on mobile charting libraries (Android and iOS, native or hybrid -with Cordova-) supporting line / area charts. All the information has been gathered from the websites of the respective chart libraries and no personal test has been made (yet).
Here's the result:
https://goo.gl/0tVC6a
I hope it helps.
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Hi among the jquery ,mootool ,yui and glow have crossbrowser compatiblity
jquery - all the way! I avoid the rest of the tools!
By best you have to define what you mean. It depends on many factors.
I prefer jquery since its user base is too large and the availability of plugins.
JQuery has been gaining good popularity. The compatibilty of JQuery with most of the browsers is higher. Jquery has picked up very well and so, Its better to try out JQuery only.
I'd recommend jQuery above anything. Microsoft visual studio 2010 ships with jQuery support which is a good benchmark for this test. Also jQuery has vast audience that develop plugins for jQuery.
I use jQuery, becouse it's intuitive and there is a lot of feedback and plugins.
compatibility
Jquery: Firefox 2.0+
Internet Explorer 6+
Safari 3+
Opera 9+
Chrome 1+, There are known problems with: Firefox 1.0.x
Internet Explorer 1.0-5.x
Safari 1.0-2.0.1
Opera 1.0-8.x
Konqueror
Mootool: MooTools is compatible and fully tested with Safari 2+, Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+ (and browsers based on gecko), Opera 9+, and Chrome 4+.
Yui: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/
Here you can see comparison of javascript frameworks. Personally I vote for jQuery, because at its slogan says Write less, do more.
Update
Right here, in stackoverflow you can see the hot discussion about this subject in this question.
At the end of the day, it depends what you want to use the framework for.
I would recommend that you start by learning to write pure javascript, only then will you find out where the relative utility of a framework comes in.
If you want a framework that has the widest browser compatibility, along with best performance on older computers/browsers then the rather annoyingly named 'my library' probably wins out.
Simply because it does feature detection rather than try to infer the browser name / version, which is a rather craptastic cop-out that most of the established libraries are guilty of.
I would recommend you give each of them a go and see what suits your need, locking yourself in to one particular framework too early will only hurt you long term; When holding a hammer, every screw looks like a nail etc.
Personally I favor YUI3 - it has strong OOP support as well as flexible CSS3 style DOM querying and a great selection of quality RIA widgets.
I wouldn't let myself be too swayed by arguments ad populem, plenty of people do silly things, find out what is right for you and your problem domain.
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Anyone have experience with game development using javascript and the html5 canvas element?
So far I have found two libraries, are either of these worth using?
http://tommysmind.com/ (XNA Port)
http://gamequery.onaluf.org/ (jquery plugin)
Does anyone have any other resources?
You can also use Lime JS - very promising HTML5 game developement framework.
http://www.limejs.com
A bit late to this ;-) but here are some current or emerging frameworks
Aves http://www.dextrose.com/en/projects/aves-engine
Akihabara http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/
Rokcet Pack http://rocketpack.fi/
Effect Games http://www.effectgames.com/effect/
these are probably overkill for the kind of games you're mostly referring to.
Also, take a look at Sencha Touch
http://www.sencha.com/
There's a very slick solataire example here
http://touchsolitaire.mobi/app/
HTH
impact js looks really cool, http://impactjs.com/ but it has $99 price tag :( But it comes with an awesome level editor so it might be worth the price.
For basic 2d games i would use either impact or Crafty
Crafty is open source, but impact has a cool level editor.
All the others that i have tested are either lacking in some areas or too expensive. Aves and Rocket has been bought by Zynga and Disney.
Have a look at Processing.js. Maybe you can use it for 2D drawing and user interaction.
You can use for example this one port http://cocos2d-javascript.org/ for game dev.
Another library you could look at is google forplay. While not a true javascript/html5 library it compiles to javascript from java much in a way like GWT.
I have not built a game engine but rather a classic game in its near-entirety, plus a few simple animations, into my Tetris clone.
Its most important feature in my opinion is the effectiveness of the multitouch control scheme when you load up the page in iOS or Android. The idea is for it to be intuitive enough that I shouldn't have to show instructions for the user to figure out how to play it.
Try our HTML5 game engine, Construct 2 (http://www.scirra.com). We have an extensive free edition available so you can play around with it!
It's an event based system which means you don't need to know programming to get going in it. However it is extendable with our Javascript SDK so anyone can write their own plugins to extend it's functionality.
A few great games have started to pop up on our arcade now as proof that it works well!
http://www.scirra.com/arcade
I have personal experience of developing a HTML 5 browser game with Dead Earth! I found that I did not need to use any specific libaries other than JQuery along with a few Jquery plugins.
I used the Canvas and the Audio elements in Dead Earth. But I did not create any fancy 3D graphics I only drew shapes and images, colouring said shapes, drew lines etc.
I imagine if you are doing something more complicated than this you may need a library otherwise why make your app more bloated than it needs to be?
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Do you know if there's any SVG + js charting library out there similar to http://www.amcharts.com/ (Flash). I need to provide nice looking interactive chart functionality in a browser that does not support Flash but supports SVG.
Depending on licensing requirements and features you have a few options. SVG is not supported from IE 6 to IE8 so you may find some libraries using canvas to run on IE, and others using VML to run on IE.
Plotkit is a mixed SVG+Canvas library, latest version is a bit outdated (0.9.1 released in 29 August 2006) BSD licensed.
Elycharts is an SVG+VML library (using RaphaelJS under the hood) with a good feature set, interactivity and cool animations. (last version 2.1.3 from December 2010) Mit licensed.
g.raphael is an SVG+VML library (using RaphaelJS, from the same author of RaphaelJS). It is very good for infographics, less good for classical charts. (last version 0.4.1 from 2009) Mit Licensed.
Grafico is again an SVG+VML library (again RaphaelJS based). It has much more chart types than gRaphael or Elycharts but less options/configurability than Elycharts. MIT licensed.
Google Chart Tools provides SVG+VML based charts. It's free to use but I didn't find the complete licensing terms. It also provides an editor (even if it is not easy to find on their site)
D3.js Is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS.
You also have some commercial option:
ZingChart - This is the only library allowing SVG, VML, canvas and flash in order to support every device out there. It is expensive but very complete.
HighCharts - A very complete SVG+VML library having a very good documentation and a very complete feature set. It has a free for personal use license but it shows a very "strict" interpretation of personal and your own blog may not be considered "personal", that's why I show it under "commercial options".
You'll need to be a little more specific about the features that you need, but you might want to look at PlotKit.
D3 is a quite good open-source charting library which uses SVG.
Now amCharts provides SVG charts and still generate flash charts for old browsers that doesn't support SVG.
amCharts support all modern browsers including modern versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer. It also runs on mobile devices powered by iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) and Android Honeycomb.
Good stuff, huh?
http://www.amcharts.com/
The google visualization API has some SVG charts you can use http://code.google.com/apis/visualization
While this is not an avg library, it is a charting one.
Have you checked out ZingChart? It renders charts in HTML5 Canvas, SVG and Flash (and VML for old IE fallback).
I'm on the team. You can reach our team at support[at]zingchart.com with any questions, or mention/follow us at http://twitter.com/zingchart.
-Andrew
Raphaël could also be useful - check out gRaphaël—Charting Plugin - it has really impressive examples.