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Learning Highcharts

You're reading from  Learning Highcharts

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849519083
Pages 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Learning Highcharts
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Web Charts 2. Highcharts Configurations 3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts 4. Bar and Column Charts 5. Pie Charts 6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts 7. Highcharts APIs 8. Highcharts Events 9. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile 10. Highcharts and Ext JS 11. Running Highcharts on the Server Side Index

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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