[Search-l] Site Statistics Live

[Swaroop C H]

>> Nice.  The Graphs are apparently drawn by the server.  It would be cool
>> if they were drawn on the client, allowing the interactive feel of much
>> of the rest of the site. Is there a way to draw such a Graph using only
>> ECMAScript?  Java could do this, but would be heavier (and may be more
>> work to support).
>
> You could draw the graph on the client using svg. But as IE doesn't
> support svg without adobe
> plugin and would need to fallback to vml...


One possibility is to use processing.js -  http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/
See http://www.obsessing.org as an example.

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with JavaScript, so can't comment much
on the practical aspects.


Regards,
Swaroop