[Nottingham] Web page graphs/charts

Rory Holland rory at linux.com
Tue Nov 29 17:39:38 UTC 2011


You can use JQuery to actually render the graph itsself in the user's
browser.
Look into JQPlot, although it might be overkill. SVG sounds better, with a
PNG fallback.

On 29 November 2011 17:36, Mike Martin <mike at redtux.org.uk> wrote:

> On 29 November 2011 17:19, Paul Sladen <notlug at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Martin wrote:
> >> Rather than posting a fixed-size fixed resolution jpg/png image of
> >> a graph plot, is there a way to display graphs/charts that scale
> >
> > Most browsers render SVG these days.  Or failing that:
> >
> >  <a href="big-version.pdf"><img src="small-version.png"/></a>
> >
> >        -Paul
> >
> >
> >
>
> you could also do some javascript detection of browser size and feed
> into php/perl and resize on the fly using GD
>
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