[thelist] Sparklines implementation

Courtenay court3nay at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 20:04:37 CDT 2004


I have a (almost) working graph implementation of this, if anyone
wants me to post it.

interface is:
  <span class='sparkgraph'>52,129,62,3,0,100,64</span>

output is a nice graph with the pixels created from EM sized divs.

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:34:02 -0400, Joshua Olson <joshua at waetech.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luther, Ron
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:56 PM
> 
> > I think it would almost be easier to define and embed a
> > 'sparkline' font  into your page.
> 
> Ron,
> 
> This sounds like an excellent idea.  Do you mean like a font where each
> character is one "pixel" wide and has one "pixel" on the line
> highlighted?... Then to generate a graph you'd do something like this:
> 
> <span style="font-family: spark;">abcdedefghgfefghijhihgfedefgh</span>
> 
> ???
> 
> Sounds like a decent idea to me.  Symantecly, I have my doubts about it's
> relevance


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