Question

I’m working on a executive dashboard where I will be displaying some tables and charts… due to the n ature of the project I can’t use any server side technology (don´t ask me why is a dumb policy I know), so I have to consume a webservice via ajax and get some arrays of data to my app. I´ve tried several API´s but all of them seem to have a limitation or something that kills it, unfortunately the corporate users rely on IE 7 and this can’t be changed so I need a solution that wokrs perfectly on it. I already try google charts, graphael,bluff, flot, plotkit, jquery visualize and jqplot.

The only API that meets absolutely is highcharts, unfortunately it requires a commercial licence which management is unwilling to pay. Bluff charts get really weird when scaled to more than 800px, flot has a very limited API and the tooltips on multi axis dont work, plotkit and jquery visualize doesnt have tooltips and I couldnt find any good documentation on gpraphael, my best shot was Jqplot which was meeting all my needs until I tried to print it on paper, they print unaligned.. seems to be a problem with excanvas…

Are there any other alternative that has tooltips, doesnt require server side, is free and is printable on IE?

EDIT

I am open to a free Silverlight solution if there is one.

Answer 1

I will just give you the list of chart-things, that i have bookmarked:

• http://www.highcharts.com/ ( this is not free lib, but it might be just what you need )
• http://www.jscharts.com/ ( also not a free thing )
• http://raphaeljs.com/
• http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/
• http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/
• http://mootools.net/forge/p/milkchart
• http://www.jqplot.com/
• http://thejit.org/
• http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/chart/
• http://code.google.com/p/flot/
• http://dygraphs.com/
• http://www.globfx.com/ ( not javascript, afaik , and wants $$$ )