I know that generating images (GD-libs) with php is too much work for the server and that's the reason why we have these tricky and beautiful javascript graph.
Some time ago I discovered SVG (and Inkscape). Why not use this (new) technology for some (stat-)gaphs on this site.
Yes, right now just Opera and soon Firefox will support it, but this could be fun, no?
the idea of scalabe vector graphics is to describe a picture and not to tell which pixel looks how. This is a bad way for photos and a good way of "artificial" graphics like chesspieces and ratinggraphs. Such is "picture" is just (XML)text, which say from here to here is a line, there is a filled ractangle and these is an ellipse with a gradient (changing color).
Such a text is very fast and easy generated and it's the browser who does the rendering ("computing how the picture looks like"😉, so I thought this idea could be interesting for Russ.
For example the rating graph is just a huge number of ractanges. And there are some others...
Got what I mean?
Originally posted by thirewhen i was a kid we had a victor lawnmower ... it could scale any grasses.
the idea of scalabe vector graphics is to describe a picture and not to tell which pixel looks how. This is a bad way for photos and a good way of "artificial" graphics like chesspieces and ratinggraphs. Such is "picture" is just (XML)text, which say from here to here is a line, there is a filled ractangle and these is an ellipse with a gradient (changing ...[text shortened]... rating graph is just a huge number of ractanges. And there are some others...
Got what I mean?
scalable victor grasses are everywhere.
i also recomend that russ gets a victor.
