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DLauer
DLauer

Reputation: 1302

What cross-browser charting packages are available?

I want to include some charts on my website and I'm looking for a good cross-browser charting package - what are my options?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 3335

Answers (16)

Thevs
Thevs

Reputation: 3253

Not quite charting, but lightweight SVG/VML cross-browser graphic library: raphaeljs.com.

Very easy to make charts.

Upvotes: 8

Andrejs Cainikovs
Andrejs Cainikovs

Reputation: 28434

I prefer jQuery one:
http://www.flotcharts.org/

Examples:
http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/

Upvotes: 17

r_honey
r_honey

Reputation: 893

This might help you:

http://www.rahulsingla.com/blog/2010/09/a-quick-comparison-of-web-based-charting-libraries-for-data-visualization

Upvotes: 0

NBRed5
NBRed5

Reputation: 121

I would second Open Flash Chart, I have used it extensively and would especially recommend the DZ patched version at OFC-2.

You can see it in use at Red5 Analytics Demo

Upvotes: 1

Charlie
Charlie

Reputation: 2096

Google Chart API is really powerful, and unlike flot does not rely on javascript being enabled.

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Upvotes: 12

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 1340

Got to go with gchart.

I've used this in several browsers.

Short tutorial.

Upvotes: 2

kennyisaheadbanger
kennyisaheadbanger

Reputation: 488

Why don't you try the jQuery Visualize plugin. It's very simple to implement, all you need is a table with your data in and then in JavaScript call the plugin and bam it'll work.

For cross-browser support they say:

We have tested this plugin in the following browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9.

Upvotes: 2

Joshua
Joshua

Reputation: 1963

Can you be a bit more descriptive about what style charts you're looking for? Simple charts like line, bar and pie graphs are understandably more widely implemented. If you're looking for more complex ones such as gantt, sparklines or real-time / data streaming charts it narrows your options substantially.

As far as being cross browser compatible, flash and HTML canvas are both pretty well supported and most people will be able to view the charts if you use either method of delivery.

There are several free flash charting solutions that work superbly well.

XML/SWF Charts is free to download and use. The free, unregistered version contains all the features except for:

- Clicking a chart takes the user to the XML/SWF Charts web site. 
- No displaying charts inside another flash file.
- No technical support, and no product updates by e-mail.

« The click redirect makes me prefer fusioncharts

Then as Justin Niessner mentioned, there is also Open Flash Chart.

If you prefer to go the HTML Canvas route, try: - http://code.google.com/p/flot/ (as mentioned by Andrejs Cainikovs) - http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/

If you're using PHP, here's one : http://naku.dohcrew.com/libchart/

If None of the Above are a viable option and you want a really simple chart (bar, line) then consider using CSS charts:

Upvotes: 12

Al.
Al.

Reputation: 2872

For true cross-browser support I would recommend image graphs generated on the server.

If this isn't attainable use Flash-based plugins. This is the most widely-supported clientside solution. Otherwise resort to Javascript - it may require HTML5, or non-IE browsers, or ..

If you're seeking a simple graph in HTML table see here. Far from recommended though!

Upvotes: 0

Borgar
Borgar

Reputation: 38652

Another Flash & cash solution is amCharts.

Upvotes: 3

Robert MacLean
Robert MacLean

Reputation: 39261

SQL Reporting Services

Upvotes: 0

T.E.D.
T.E.D.

Reputation: 44804

You should be able to use SVG for this. Sadly, IE can't display it without installing an unsupported third party add-in.

Upvotes: 0

ijw
ijw

Reputation: 4526

Dojo charting also works OK (and uses SVG/VML rather than Canvas/ExCanvas, which means you can do funkier things with it if you look at its internals), but flot is nicer to program with imo.

Upvotes: 1

Rob Knight
Rob Knight

Reputation: 8772

Flot is nice. Not the most fully-featured charting system, but it does what it does really well.

Upvotes: 1

Justin Niessner
Justin Niessner

Reputation: 245419

If it's possible for your project, you might also want to check out some of the Flash charting packages like Open Flash Chart.

You could also try using some of the Flex functionality.

That way no matter what browser your user is using, you're running on a consistant runtime.

Upvotes: 1

Jon
Jon

Reputation: 2085

If you consider Flash to be cross browser and don't mind spending some money this is a good option:

http://www.fusioncharts.com/

Upvotes: 2

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