Flot: What’s the point!?
Here’s a screen shot:
What the hell is the point. You can do this in flash and have more interactive graphs. Granted it’s pretty, but so would any custom flash chart, or if you’re not the custom kind, there’s Open Flash Chart.
Seriously people. jQuery is great for making the client side more interactive, but Flash has JavaScript graphics rendering beat. It’s faster. Faster to render and faster in response time.
Don’t even play the “Flash may not be installed card” because I’ll turn around and use my “JavaScript may not be enabled” one. Every person online today can see youtube videos and so has flash enabled and the web is useless unless you have JavaScript enabled. So these are not really valid arguments.
Rant complete,
Allain
March 25th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Well, I guess the real problem is that the flash player is not open source (and until recently the Linux player was crap)
But I expect Adobe will open source it soon. Why not?
Thanks for the nice plug
monk.e.boy
April 10th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I’m one of the iola guys behind it, so I might be a bit biased. But the main thing about using Javascript compared to Flash is that there are a lot more people/developers with Javascript skills than with Flash skills. So what we are trying to to is make graphing easier and more accessible for your average web developers, thus using a language many know.
Besides that I would claim that Flot is a lot easier to extend that a Flash app, but that just my point of view.