Charting with YUI
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Yahoo’s web programming framework, YUI, is out in a new version, which frankly wouldn’t be too exciting if it wasn’t for the new Charts library. Basically, quite a few people have been experimenting with doing charts and graphs with on html canvases (including myself). This method can work well for specific purposes, but it certainly doesn’t scale well, and nobody has come up with a good general library for all charting needs yet.
And the YUI team hasn’t either. Instead, they’ve taken a much more interesting approach by building a JavaScript library for accessing Flash’s (or Flex’s?) Charting engine. Hopefully (in time) we’ll get all the power of Flex Charting through YUI.
Update: Apparently, this is a joint project between the Flash and JavaScript teams at Yahoo, so the Flashy people have more info on the YUI utility.
Updated update: It also turns out that this isn’t based on Flex Charting, rather it’s built on top of a Yahoo-specific Flash library. This probably makes it less interesting?