Comments on: Google publishes chart API for web pages

By: Chart mixer for prototyping Google Chart API -- Chip’s Tips for Developers

Chart mixer for prototyping Google Chart API -- Chip’s Tips for Developers — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:36:31 +0000

[...] a recent article I wrote on [Geeks are Sexy] Technology News about the new Google Chart API, I mentioned that the only thing that’s not simple about this API is the data encoding. So, I [...]

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:11:00 +0000

I worked on it a bit over the weekend — maybe I can get something together later today.

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:11:00 +0000

I worked on it a bit over the weekend — maybe I can get something together later today.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:37:00 +0000

Chip: Now that would be a *GREAT* idea.. nobody has done it, so if you could cook up a plugin that integrate these functionalities, it would certainly attract some attention to you.

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:37:00 +0000

Chip: Now that would be a *GREAT* idea.. nobody has done it, so if you could cook up a plugin that integrate these functionalities, it would certainly attract some attention to you.

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:09:00 +0000

It should be fairly trivial to translate the javascript function into PHP, and then you could wrap that with a function that takes arguments for all the options — or some such. Then embed that in a plugin. I don't use typepad myself, but I might whip up something for WordPress.

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:09:00 +0000

It should be fairly trivial to translate the javascript function into PHP, and then you could wrap that with a function that takes arguments for all the options — or some such. Then embed that in a plugin. I don’t use typepad myself, but I might whip up something for WordPress.

By: Stewart McKie

Stewart McKie — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:14:00 +0000

The API may be simple to a Java programmer but as a blogger using typepad who just wants to stick a chart in a typelist widget (by pasting in the image tag code) the data encoding looks far from simple – as you rightly say. I just wanted a pie chart based on three values (7655,6184,6056) but apparently I need to run a Javascript program to encode them or figure out some scaling equation. There must be a simpler way – I suppose the answer is to wait until someone creates a Google Chart widget for typepad :)

By: Stewart McKie

Stewart McKie — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:14:00 +0000