Developer’s Guide - Google Chart API. google API for making charts. generates images. too bad they didn’t bundle some of that cool google finance flash stuff. via paul.
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I didn’t understand the release of this exactly. There are so many better flash alternatives. I guess they just release code that’s sitting around. There’s amCharts, SWFcharts, and a coworker just showed me Flot.
But yeah, this is image-based which is different, I know. Still ugly!
the crazy encoding scheme is actually kind of interesting as it forces you to remove “noise” from your graph. Whether that be too much data or too large a range.
amCharts is nice but still takes a bit of time to load. And there’s something to be said about a graph which you can’t just right click and save.
And Flot uses canvas, so you’re pretty much screwed when trying to get that to work properly across all browsers.