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Tonight, I am happy to announce the soon-to-come release of a project I've spend a fair amount of time working on:

Chart-o-matic is a easy-to-use solution for embedding simple charts in web documents. Initially developed as a part of my final year project at university, it will soon be released to the public under BSD-Licence.

What makes Chart-o-matic significantly different from all the other client-side charting libraries is its approach to the visualized information: It takes statistical data that was stored in html tables and turns it into a bar-, line-, or pie-charts. In a way, it does for charts what sIFR does for typography: It preserves the semantics of textual information while still providing a rich graphic experience to the users of modern browsers.

Although it's not completely finished yet, I've put some more Information and a small demonstration of the system together. Have a look at it here: Chart-o-matic project website »

Initially I've planned to blog in English, but to be honest, right now I'm a bit too lazy. After all, I'm much more eloquent in German :-). As this topic has been covered elsewhere before, this article is just a summary anyway. If you stumbled upon this page but don't understand German, a good starting point for you is Preloaders in AS3 by Keith Peters.

Für ein kleines AS3-Projekt, an dem ich gerade arbeite, benötige ich einen Preloader. Wie sich herausstellte, ist das gar kein so triviales Problem wie man denken könnte – wenn man nicht mit Flash arbeitet, aber auch auf das Flex-Framework verzichten möchte. (more...)