Comments on: Pretty Web Statistics in SVG

By: Golden Ratio

Golden Ratio — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:10:20 +0000

It’s easy enough to find browser stats for Flash and JavaScript.
Where are the SVG stats?
Can’t be that uncommon since wikipedia uses them extensively.

By: Archatas

Archatas — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:35:34 +0000

Very impressive. Maybe I will dive into SVG technologies as well..

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:19:46 +0000

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jhs/gfx/svg/codedread.com/graph.svg looks awesome, by the way! Thanks!

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:18:03 +0000

Johan,

Thanks I saw your comment in the moderation queue only after I responded at your blog. One thing you should be aware: The Mozilla trunk build currently has patches for textPath and some filters, so things are progressing, we’ll see it in the next major version of Firefox (most likely 3.0).

Regards,
Jeff

By: Johan Sundström

Johan Sundström — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:17:05 +0000

I played a bit (okay, rather a lot, actually) with your code to get it a little closer to the original, and to move most of the styling attributes to a chunk of CSS; have a look at the updated version. It shouldn't be hard to migrate this back to your own codebase, I think, should you want to. The Mozilla development front doesn't have filters yet, nor text-shadow, nor does the latest 1.5 handle textPath elements properly, so I believe this is about as close as one get at the moment. Well, apart from the colors, which could be better; I picked the wrong set, so they look a little washed out.

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:48:07 +0000

Thanks for the comments, Jonathan. Your suggestions are in “the queue”…

By: Jonathan Watt

Jonathan Watt — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:13:33 +0000

Very nice! I have a request to make it even nicer: can you allow dragging along the timeline instead of just clicking? (I also think it would be better if the pie chart started at 12 o’clock rather than 9 o’clock.)

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:12:51 +0000

SVG Filters: Yeah, I could put in some drop shadows and whatnot, but it would “only” show up in ASV at the moment. To me, it’s not worth it at present so I haven’t investigated them too far. I’m more of a programmer than an artist anyway. And it’s my opinion you can get by with “cheating” and using gradients and opacity for some of the effects.

XSLT: What I really meant was a more maintainable solution rather than a mess of PHP code. At least this is what I’ve heard about XSLT from colleagues. E4X looks good but browser support is spotty.

By: Johan Sundström

Johan Sundström — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:18:34 +0000

If tedium is what you are trying to avoid, XSLT will not come as a great saviour in that department. I would recommend taking a peek at E4X (ecmascript for xml), though, which is a coming attraction that makes xml creation in javascript almost blissful. (Or trying out Ruby, if you are going to deploy it server side.)

By: Johan Sundström

Johan Sundström — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:45:01 +0000

Not a bad start, and what it may lack in aesthetics it at least in part makes up for in interactivity. Have you not played anything with SVG's filters yet, or should I perhaps rather ask if you have played with them and deemed present browser support for them shaky at best?