Ask HN: What is the best HTML5 charting library?

5 points by kortina 14 years ago | 8 comments

I'm looking for something that looks good crossbrowser, as well as on iPhone/iPad, Android, and is fairly easy to use.

agbegin 14 years ago |

http://zingchart.com renders in HTML5 Canvas and/or SVG, so it will render on older Androids that don't have SVG support. Also VML for auto fallback to IE6 w/out need for ExCanvas.

transparency: I'm on the team. abegin[at]zingchart.com ^Andrew

tmlee 14 years ago |

this may be something you could use, http://www.highcharts.com/ I like it, it's cross browser compatible!

kortina 14 years ago | |

Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks for the Rx. Is it pretty quick to work with for you?

tmlee 14 years ago | | |

yup documentation is nice.. with clean javascript wrapper and highly customizable

jfdi 14 years ago | |

i was hacking around under the covers of Mixpanel's 'Platform' a while back and if memory serves, they wrapped highcharts into their api for that product.

karterk 14 years ago |

Go for Google charts, it's really awesome.

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

kortina 14 years ago | |

I always felt there were lots of gymnastics required to get data into a suitable format for Google charts (filling zeroes in time series, tough to work with multiple series, etc)

lemma 14 years ago |

There's also http://www.rgraph.net/