fgCharting
fgCharting is a jQuery script for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.
Data visualization in HTML has long been tricky to achieve. Past solutions have involved non-standard plugins, proprietary behavior, and static images. But this has changed with the recent growth in support for the new HTML Canvas element, which provides a native drawing API that can be addressed with simple Javascript. This script is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.
Just like tableToChart, fgCharting creates charts using <canvas> in real time based on a HTML table. This promotes accessibility, since the table data is fully accessible in browsers without javascript. Canvas is not natively supported in Internet Explorer, but lucky for us, the smart folks at Google have made a patch that uses purely javascript to port Canvas support to IE and can be downloaded here: ExplorerCanvas.
fgCharting provides several types of graphs, such as Pie, Line, Area, and Bar.
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Posted on the 27th of March at 9:30 am
