Comments on Sound of Code Blog: Data visualization frameworks and Protovis

@Teo: You should give it a try sometime. Comes rea...

2010-06-04T09:04:44.841+05:30

@Teo:
You should give it a try sometime. Comes real handy for visualization works.

@laktek:
Yeah, I have used Raphaeljs few times when I needed to draw stuff from the scratch, and it is so interesting!

Well, Protovis doesn't have official support for IE yet. However, there is a VML patch that some guys are working on to make the graphs at least render on IE. :-)

And yeah! Processing (js/java) is another cool vis api that I have come across. Forgot to mention it in the post so, thanks for mentioning. :-)

I've been playing around with Raphael.js and f...

2010-06-04T02:45:25.949+05:30

I've been playing around with Raphael.js and found it very interesting. Best is its graphing library - gRaphael.

Haven't tried Protovis though. Does it support IE? I see both Protovis and Raphael are SVG based, but Raphael extend to supporting IE by using VRML.

Also, for complex visualizations Processing.js (http://processingjs.org/) seems to be a good fit, which is based on HTML5 canvas instead of SVG (but no support in IE).

Sounds cool, and that code is pretty interesting :...

2010-06-04T00:53:41.717+05:30

Sounds cool, and that code is pretty interesting :)