March 2008
Table-Based Layout Is The Next Big Thing
by marco & 3 others (via)Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Generating charts from accessible data tables and vice versa using the Google Charts API
by julieGoogle have lately been praised for their chart API and my esteemed colleague Ed Eliot has a workaround for its restrictions in terms of caching and server hits. I played around a bit with it and thought it very cool but it felt a bit clunky to add all these values to a URL when they could be in the document for those who cannot see pie charts. This is why I wrote a small script that converts data tables to charts using the API and a wee bit of JavaScript. Using this script you can take a simple, valid and accessible data table like the following and it gets automatically converted to a pie chart.