Thanks Jim. I seem to remember the same thing. In fact, I delved into
Javascript fairly intensively at that time. What bothered me was that
Javascript seemed to be tied to only one browser, seemed to be
proprietary, and was poorly documented. Any comments? Is the garden
website still active? URL?
The concept is right on target.
> Encode generic tools in library scripts separable from individual
> applications.
>
> >A phenomenally useful client task would be to take data off the server
> >and display it graphically; however, this is exactly what Javascript
> >cannot do, I think. Scalable vector graphics doesn't do it either: the
> >data has already been processed on the server side. What is needed is a
> >client that takes raw numbers off the server's database and folds them
> >into a wizard graph. Very efficient.
>
> I seem to recall answering this very question and others for you 6-10 months
> ago, including an example of drawing a sine curve in javascript (I think it
> might have even been animated). Bar charts, scatter plots, and many other
> types of graphs can be easily done using positioned elements. Bar charts
> don't even require that. They can be nicely done by simply adjusting the
> dimensions of a series of images.
>
> What limitations do you see with scalable vector graphics? You should be
> able to do quite a lot with since you can use javascript to generate whole
> series of web pages including any sort of components.
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Jim Self
> Manager and Chief Developer
> VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
> (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)
