Javascript charting with YUI Flot

By Philip Tellis

Web developers who want to add charts and graphs to their web sites have three options. 1. Use server side generated chart images 2. Use flash 3. Use canvas + javascript

Web developers who want to add charts and graphs to their web sites have three options. 1. Use server side generated chart images 2. Use flash 3. Use canvas + javascript

Option 1 is often the best unless you need some level of interactivity at which point you're stuck with choosing between flash that has problems with focus on linux, and has never been a favourite of FOSS developers, or using canvas + javascript with incomplete support for Internet Explorer through excanvas. YUI-flot follows option 3.

YUI-flot came about as an attempt to bring the popular flot plugin for jQuery into the hands of YUI developers, and in this talk, I'll cover a little bit about what you can do with YUI-Flot, and a little more about what I learnt while developing it.

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