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Learning Highcharts 4

You're reading from   Learning Highcharts 4 Design eye-catching and interactive JavaScript charts for your web page with Highcharts, one of the leading tools in web charting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287451
Length 478 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Joe Kuan Joe Kuan
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Web Charts 2. Highcharts Configurations FREE CHAPTER 3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts 4. Bar and Column Charts 5. Pie Charts 6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts 7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts 8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts 9. 3D Charts 10. Highcharts APIs 11. Highcharts Events 12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile 13. Highcharts and Ext JS 14. Server-side Highcharts 15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins Index

Chapter 1. Web Charts

In this chapter, you will learn the general background of web charts. This includes a short history of how web charts used to be made before Ajax and HTML5 became the new standard. The recent advances in JavaScript programming will be briefly discussed. Then, SVG support and the new HTML5 feature canvas, the main drive behind JavaScript charts, are introduced and demonstrated. This is followed by a quick guide to the other JavaScript graphing packages that are available on the market. Finally, we are introduced to Highcharts and will explain the advantages of using Highcharts over other products. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • A short history of web charting
  • The rise of JavaScript and HTML5
  • JavaScript charts on the market
  • Why Highcharts?
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