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Jeff Howden jeff at jeffhowden.com
Mon Aug 25 17:39:08 CDT 2003


joshua,

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> From: Joshua Olson
>
> It should be possible to completely skip the generation
> of the image and simply make the bar graph out of HTML
> and a static image or two.  I think you'll find numerous
> advantages by making it html over trying to render the
> image server-side--weight, quality, extensibility, etc.
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and to play devil's advocate, i can think of a few advantages to doing it
server-side:

weight
    yeah, i think an image would weigh less than
    all the html and little images necessary to
    produce the same thing)

portability
    no chance of not selecting the entire html graph
    to paste into something like word.  less chance
    of people messing with the numbers once it's been
    pulled into an authoring medium.

quality
     as in consistency across all devices with
     graphical display capabilities)

just my 2¢,

.jeff

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