- Learning Highcharts
- Joseph Kuan
- 177字
- 2021-08-05 18:23:47
Chapter 1. Web Charts
In this chapter you will learn the general background of web charts. This includes a short history of how web charts used to be made before Ajax and HTML5 became the new standard. The recent advancement in JavaScript programming will be briefly discussed. Then the new HTML5 features—SVG and canvas, which are the main drive behind JavaScript charts, are introduced and demonstrated. This is followed by a quick guide on the other JavaScript graphing packages that are available on the market. Finally, an introduction of Highcharts is given, which explains the advantages of Highcharts over the other products. In this chapter we will cover the following:
- A short history of web charting
- The uprising of JavaScript and HTML5
- JavaScript charts on the market
- Why Highcharts?
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