<div dir="ltr">A visualisation editor would have tonnes of potential, or a CSV upload to pretty maker<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Smith, John <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk" target="_blank">J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">D3 looks pretty straightforward; very similar to jQuery, but a lot more powerful than we need. If we migrate the editor over to HTML5 though this year then
 it would give us instant support for many more chart types…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For the current chart model I simply ported the flash code over just now to get the chart working in most browsers although IE8 and below will always be a problem.
 Even D3 won’t work properly in IE8 without using the AIGHT library to shim IE8 up to bare minimum of HTML5 compatibility… It might be worth looking into adding in AIGHT anyway as I have already had to add in several bits of alternative code targeted at IE
 browsers only… <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">John Smith<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Glasgow Caledonian University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 04, 2013 2:44 PM</span></p><div class="im"><br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
</div><b>Cc:</b> John Horton<div><div class="h5"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Graphs and pies in 1.9<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">D3 is complicated as anything early on, but once you get the logic it makes sense (a little)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Fay Cross <<a href="mailto:Fay.Cross@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Fay.Cross@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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 as he’s done quite complicated ones in Flash which need looking at again.  I’ll pass the link onto him.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">(it was John Smith on the list who did the page model btw not the John here)</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 January 2013 14:32</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Subject:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> [Xerte-dev] Re: Graphs and pies in 1.9<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ah ok, I have been experimenting with D3 (<a href="http://d3js.org/" target="_blank">http://d3js.org/</a>) and feel relatively confident I can make it draw basic graphs, wondered if that'd be useful<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<span lang="EN-GB">Nothing as complicated as that page shows though<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Fay Cross <<a href="mailto:Fay.Cross@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Fay.Cross@nottingham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">John wrote the new page model – I think he used jQuery and drew the shapes on a canvas.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-GB">We were going to look into whether there was something else we could use for more complicated graphs but what he did works well for the simple ones used on the charts
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat Lockley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 January 2013 14:26<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Graphs and pies in 1.9</span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hello,<br>
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In 1.9 what draws the graphs and pie charts?<br>
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Pat<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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