Re:The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
by pak on Thursday June 16, 2011 @03:35PM
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I commend you for using <map> to link the markers to the items. Image maps... wow that takes me back to 1999. I can't believe people still remember how to use them. Of course you can't do any rollover effects with them, but otherwise it seems like a pretty quick and effective solution for the interface you wanted to make. When I first saw this I thought the Google Chart API had maybe changed to add JavaScript-based interactions.
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Re:The best of $user on HN, with eBook export
by redpill27 on Thursday June 16, 2011 @04:08PM
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Well, the Google Chart API actually supports JS-based interactive charts: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/index.html
However, I use the static image version + <map> since the JS version of the scatter chart is missing some features (no alpha channel, fixed marker size).