Graphically representing a schedule of activities

[mcowen]

I'm looking for advice on whether Javascript would be the best approach for a problem I'm trying to solve. I want to be able to graphically represent a schedule of activities. Each activity has various properties including a name and the number of days from the previous activity and these properties are in a XML file. In a browser I would like to display the activities as images with lines representing the relationships between each activity.

I think that JavaScript could manage this well but is there something better?

Matt

 

[j4606]

Try XSL before javascript.

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You're probably far better off getting some server-side charting / graphing library for whatever server-side language you can utilise (there should be many free ones out there).

If the graphs / charts are too complex, you might find JS too slow. Creating images server-side would be faster, and would work for people with no JS enabled.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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