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April 9, 2008 10:52 am
[…] what if we want to include data visualization as an integral part of the site, not just an isolated figure or an interactive chart? When we’re designing interfaces for browsing data-driven sites, it’s valuable to be able to create navigation elements that are also visualization tools. We can keep the user informed as they explore, so they can make better decisions about what they’re looking at and what they’re clicking on.
zardoz wrote:
hmmm… can’t say I’ve ever warmed to CSS; it’s a bit, um, random, browser-implementation-wise.
But your links did lead me to the Google chart api which is exactly what I need. Now that is seriously cool.
I guess Google is just going to take over the world after all.
Posted on 09-Apr-08 at 7:27 pm | Permalink
Mox wrote:
Very disappointed. That’s not “creating charts with CSS” that’s creating charts in XHTML and displaying them with CSS. XML/XSLT has a much better division between data and presentation, although I still don’t see a neat way to use different views on the same data without using multiple XML files that include a core XML and reference a different XSLT, which gets a little messy.
Posted on 16-Apr-08 at 4:59 am | Permalink
Sara Jensen Schubert wrote:
It’s still a clean and elegant way to present the data with embedded links. From a usability perspective, it’s much much better than generated images.
Posted on 16-Apr-08 at 4:24 pm | Permalink
Mox wrote:
I don’t think I can be convinced <span class=”index” style=”width: 42%”&rt;(42%)</span&rt; is “clean and elegant”
But I guess these days XHTML is considered machine-generated.
I bet that’s not going to appear right in the blog comments …
Posted on 16-Apr-08 at 4:51 pm | Permalink
Mox wrote:
rt? gt.
As they used to say on the forums for my favourite MMOG … My Beamer for an Edit button!
Posted on 16-Apr-08 at 4:54 pm | Permalink