Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library

Re:Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library by davidjgraph on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @03:45PM (#6362853)

I have to ask (+ be safe in the knowledge my plug is no worse than Simon's - Hello Northwoods \0/), how come HN folks find GoJS and yFiles and not so much our product mxGraph (www.jgraph.com). We've been doing this library since 2005, the others went into production in 2012 (I think). We seem to attract the Enterprises, but not so much the general devs. If anyone is feeling critical, does our site simply not make it clear what we do?

And yes, we export to SVG client-side and also to PDF in Java :).

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Re:Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library by marshray on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:27PM (#6363217)

I'm a programmer who's into graphs, the data structure.

When I first pulled up your site I saw the logo in the upper left which is an array of dots. Then I saw most of the entire page covered in logos of completely unrelated companies. The image changed to show me an Earth with another grid of dots. I didn't wait around for the 3rd animated slide, but now I see it looks like a scissors mechanism or DNA or something. I see mottos like "connecting the dots" and "ultimate diagramming tool".

The only "diagramming tool" I've used are Visio and that OpenOfficeOrg one.

On the other hand, when I visit http://www.gojs.net/latest/index.html , my reaction is "HOLY SHIT THESE PEOPLE HAVE 10 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE GRAPHS PROGRAMMATICALLY IN JS"

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Re:Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library by SigmundA on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @11:01AM (#6367594)

You need many more samples, much better docs and a user forum would help.

I will say we are looking at your product as well. Your print support looks great with nice browser based preview and support for large format printing. Your server side .Net component for PDF conversion sounds good, but there is almost no information on it on the site, again a doc problem.

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Re:Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library by MaggieL on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:49PM (#6363384)

yFiles has been around for many years, and the yWorks free-to-use diagramming tool based on it named yEd is in my use-it-everyday list.

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Re:Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library by davidjgraph on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @04:52PM (#6363405)

I was referring to the release dates of the web native products, yFiles HTML and GOJs, the companies are indeed all much older.

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Re:Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library by giuliano108 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @05:39AM (#6366274)

yEd seems to be really good, thanks for the pointer MaggieL ...

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