Continued Astonishment at Google Visualization Widgets
I've been working with the AnnotatedTimeLine for a few weeks now, and I'm simply amazed at the quality of the code contained in that widget. Oh, sure, it's not perfect. It's got update 'flicker', but on the whole, it's saved us a ton of time and it's price point is a lot cheaper than VantagePoint, the next-best alternative I know of for this kind of visualization.
I'm able to do the zoom in and out cleanly, I'm able to smooth (compress) the data nicely in Javascript - which, by the way, I'm now very interested in the speed of Javascript processing in a web browser, and very excited about Safari 4, and the next version of Firefox for the speed.
It's great to get a better understanding of Javascript as well. It certainly opens my eyes to the JSTalk project, and makes that far more interesting to me because I know it better now than I did. Lots to like there, too.
Yeah, this has been a great experience. I'm very interested in seeing what 'da Boss thinks of the app on Monday. I hope he likes it - whether he says so or not.