[thelist] Sparklines implementation

Alex Jones alexj_list at agrussell.com
Tue Oct 26 08:18:19 CDT 2004


Check out this post on Functioning Form to see how Luke has been trying 
to adapt the idea: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?110 It's an 
interesting concept and implementation, though I doubt it is ready to 
drop into a Web app directly.

Alex



Courtenay wrote on 10/25/2004 11:47 PM:

>Hi all,
>
>Just finished reading up about Sparklines from the always-amazing Edward Tufte
>
><a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=">
>http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=</a>
>
>Sparklines are a great way (IMO) of representing data trends inline with text.
>
>My question is, has anyone ever seen an implementation of this
>suitable for integration into a web app?  I'm already imagining some
>fun/tricky CSS and javascript methods, but don't want to go
>re-inventing the wheel (yet).
>  
>



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