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Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript (jcoglan.com)
64 points by sant0sk1 on Sept 16, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments




Which is best?


Sadly it depends. I find Flot the most pleasant to use but from memory it is missing some important features. (I last used it ~1 year ago)

ESJChart is really feature complete, but bloated and has a bad interface.

I would try Flot first, and if it doesn't meet your needs try the YUI one.


I just used flot a few days ago and was really impressed. Especially with how it does time series so easily. You just hand it a bunch of dates, which may include irregular intervals or gaps, and it figures out a reasonable representation for the data so it looks consistent. Really really nice and simple to use too.


They are nice looking charts.

There's a weird label positioning issue (label text stays a fixed width from the left edge of the screen, not the left edge of the chart) with Google Chrome, but not with Windows Safari or Opera.


I saw that earlier -- but it looks fixed now?


I have yet to see free, client-side charting/graphing that works as well as commercial alternatives. We recently started using Flash-based charts called FusionCharts. They're a little expensive, but are well worth it if graphing is a central part of your web app.


I love to develop javascript library!




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