vu******@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to create web charts. My site is using AJAX, so I thought
of VML and SVG for chart graphics. But there is a browser compatibility
issue. Flash would be a good solution but I do not know ActionScript
(only basic animation). Any other ideas or links or feedbacking the 3
above technologies are so welcome...
Thank you.
I'm not so keen on VML, but both SVG and Flash would be
things I would consider.
Until of late I would have tipped in the direction of Flash,
if the charting required pie charts or such , as otherwise I could do
most charts with browser native resources.
The support available natively for SVG and via plug-in
otherwise, makes it a little more difficult a choice.
In 2008 Adobe will discontinue the ASV plugin, *BUT* Adobe
just bought Macromedia (Flash) so being as even the might of Microsoft
or Mozilla eventually gives way to the w3.org I expect the SVG parser
of ASV will find new life as the front end for a flash engine.
Of course there is the here and now of development.
I'm already making money with SVG development and
even have projects migrating Flash to SVG
It is just these last couple of versions of browsers like
Firefox,Opera,Seamonkey etc. that make SVG now viable.
For bar graphs, pie charts and such , SVG is more than ready
to do that task now , ans will get nothing but better.
SVG being an XML derived standard is just as templatable
via XML/XSL as HTML. Over the long haul life gets easier
using SVG , if your project falls within the subset of abilities
represented by the overlap in implementation thus far of the various
viewers, with charting being a fairly easy target to do.