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Re:Chartist – Simple responsive charts by SEJeff on Friday August 29, 2014 @01:37PM (#8243557)
SVG in general falls over with very large datasets, I find html canvas based libraries such as maybe Flot better for thousands upon thousands of datapoints. I love d3 as much as anyone and all of it's offspring, but SVG is too slow in most browsers (especially Firefox) for lots of datapoints.
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Re:Chartist – Simple responsive charts by Someone1234 on Friday August 29, 2014 @02:10PM (#8243706)
It is interesting that you cannot copy SVG out of your browser. When I visit the page in Chrome, mouse over the graph and "copy," it doesn't copy either the BMP buffer OR the raw SVG (XML).

I was going to try and copy/paste into Outlook, but that's obviously no-go if you cannot copy at all. Interesting limitation of SVG that I wasn't aware existed until now.

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Re:Chartist – Simple responsive charts by SEJeff on Friday August 29, 2014 @02:36PM (#8243819)
Yet another bonus of canvas, something vaguely akin to:

var canvas = document.getElementById("canvasElement");

var image = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");

document.write('<img src="' + img + '">');

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Re:Chartist – Simple responsive charts by wcameron on Saturday August 30, 2014 @06:36AM (#8246093)
It sounds like you're looking for the SVG Crowbar: http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/
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Re:Chartist – Simple responsive charts by TheLoneWolfling on Friday August 29, 2014 @03:31PM (#8244163)
To be fair, that's not an intrinsic limitation so much as a browser implementation limitation.

File a bug report?

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