thinkvitamin.com — Somewhere in between presenting static information graphics and complex, interactive data dashboards there's a need for a way to visualize moderately dynamic data on the web. Oftentimes the solutions you see implemented are clunky, for example, manually creating multiple frames of various data points and uploading them by hand.
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kragthediggerMay 9, 2007
righto.. not even sure how 'standard' this standard is, but I'll digg for reference, and because I appreciate the effort of building something, and explaining how something works, rather than saying 'I include this 3rd party library over here, which I don't know how it works, and automagically things happen'.~K
Closed AccountMay 9, 2007
Yeah, if this was 1997.
Closed AccountMay 9, 2007
Your dynamic values are passed in the javascript, this is just the shell that handles and displays the output.
jlebrechMay 9, 2007
One other improvement could be xmlhttp refreshing and loading data at a set interval within the animation, and updating on the fly.That would be for a more active graph than a funds thermometer.
error601May 9, 2007
If you have another opinion...how about some facts? That's what the "science" part of "computer science" is all about. Unless you want to sound like a smart ass little child.
mookstahMay 10, 2007
Well done, If the author's goal was "lets create a complex javascript/css element where we should have used flash because we're so cool"
thebltMay 10, 2007
"he says using flash in some cases is the equivalent of "hitting a fly with a sledgehammer".. i think he did the opposite here"He hit a sledgehammer with a fly??I disagree. I'm all about smaller file sizes and limited use of proprietary technologies. Don't get me wrong, I'll try to use Flash whenever I can. But the small amount of code used to do this just makes more sense rather than a Flash document. There's just too many problems with Flash, such as the new "feature'...or IE6 where users have to "Click to activate" 's. Of course there are workarounds but it just goes to show that this stuff gets messy and in a situation such as this, simple Javascript animation makes sense.
lslinnetMay 13, 2007
Author of the page is untrust worthy made a comment on his side that he deleted just because it stated that his title for the post was misleading!