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Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by alexyim on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:06PM (#1808762)
Anyone know what other similar libraries there are?
Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by strebler on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:27PM (#1808837)
It depends on what you want to want to do - this library has a wider scope than others I've seen. The closest I know would be Raphael, which is nice in that it also supports IE (Canvas): http://raphaeljs.com/

If you just want Graphs/Charts, here's a few off the top of my head:

http://www.deensoft.com/lab/protochart/

http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/

http://code.google.com/p/flotr/

Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by bfung on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @12:42AM (#1810009)
for clarification, raphael's IE support is not from HTML 5's canvas tag, but from SVG's precursor, VML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Markup_Language
Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by kilian on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @06:12PM (#1809015)
I'm the author of Grafico, A Raphaël (js based SVG/VML) charting library with a focus on proper charts (per Stephen Few/Tufte) Check it out here: http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/ and this page has a lot of examples: http://grafico.kilianvalkhof.com/documentation/index.html
Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by llimllib on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:22PM (#1808813)
The Javascript InfoVis Toolkit: http://thejit.org/

and gRaphaël: http://g.raphaeljs.com/

spring to mind.

Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by revorad on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:41PM (#1808908)
Highcharts has better cross-browser compatibiltiy - http://highcharts.com.
Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by SkyMarshal on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @07:19PM (#1809252)
Though it's not F/free, if you care about that:

http://highcharts.com/license

Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by hassy on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:21PM (#1808810)
JIT is great http://thejit.org/
Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by gmac on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @06:01PM (#1808974)
Bluff (a port of Ruby's Gruff) does less, but does it very well. http://bluff.jcoglan.com/
Re:Protovis - A visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG. by biilly on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @06:40PM (#1809124)
I wrote a library that uses canvas: http://github.com/biilly/doodle-js