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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>You can also do it this way and execute the callback when the script has loaded to use it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=826 height=729 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CE5217.32471DD0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>-----Original Message-----<br>From: xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John<br>Sent: 16 May 2013 07:28<br>To: xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Charting Library</span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>D3 is probably the ultimate in charting tools and is HUGE i agree but a lot of that is the data manipulation routines, cross browser, legacy browser support stuff... Don't we potentially want all them too?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Making it a jquery plugin doesn't actually have that much overhead but i think they could/should further split the sections into sub plugins so that you can pick and choose which you require...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Its only 135kb minified though - not much or any bigger than 1 decent sized image - what we need to do in xenith is enable on-demand loading/background pre-fetching of these libraries i think and then there isn't an issue...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>See here though for others <a href="http://techslides.com/50-javascript-charting-and-graphics-libraries/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://techslides.com/50-javascript-charting-and-graphics-libraries/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I was actually wondering whether we should just make the editor code into jquery plugins which leverage the power of jquery chaining and oop in a sense, so something like:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>$('#treemenu :nth-child(6)').insertBranch('...').bind('click', function().... Etc<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Easy to do, maintain and read...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>John Smith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Learning Technologist<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>School of Health and Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>"Pat @ Pgogy" <<a href="mailto:xerte@pgogywebstuff.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>xerte@pgogywebstuff.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>It is a plugin, but you could link the raw GitHub stuff to save space.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I think the jquery in XOT could be moved into a library into which D3 could be added<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I've got two D3 plugins half developed, but I've just bundled the JS in<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On 15 May 2013, at 15:44, Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>There are some really nice examples on their site. I think it’s abit more than I need: it seems to be a whole jquery like plugin, rather than just the charting stuff.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This is one example where being to load libraries from a CDN would be good, because then people can choose. I don’t know if you can make the charting setup FWS for anything but the simplest charts, which we already have.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>After equations though, academics would make a lot of use of charts. I suppose they can do them as images, but it’s a bit of a hassle.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: 15 May 2013 15:33<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>To: For Xerte technical developers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Charting Library<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>D3 is pretty standard and jquery like<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On 15 May 2013, at 15:17, Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The ability to show a range of charts would be a good addition to the site template, and the toolkit, it would complement the MathJax stuff nicely.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Does anyone have any recommendations?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Xerte-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Xerte-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk%3cmailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Xerte-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/xerte-dev</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>