Opening .pdf files in Safari doesn’t block the machine, nor does Safari complain when I want to close the tab (have you ever opened a pdf on Windows in your browser? You can be lucky when you haven’t installed the full Adobe suite and it blocks your machine for several seconds).
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I’m currently implementing a pure JavaScript time-series/line graph. I’ve got the idea from the book I’m currently reading (Visualizing Data by Ben Fry).
It works great, still have to do some improvements here and there but my main goal is to get it running with IE, which doesn’t support the <canvas> tag (which is really a pity).
Do you know any alternatives? It’s enough if I could draw basic shapes like rectangles and lines, nothing fancy.
Wow, nearly three weeks since my last blog post (but I do post some updates more frequently on Twitter).
[Warning: tech stuff follows] Anyway, I’m doing quite fine. My bachelor project is slowly taking shape. Currently I am modifying SharpMap for our needs (adding a dynamic layer for our data, adding some events to know what’s going on inside of SharpMap,…).
I’ve also touched the clipping function, which really sucked. I replaced it with Sutherland-Hodgman’s polygon-clipping algorithm which works like a charm. This move was necessary because GDI+ has some problems rendering invalid data (meaning data which is far outside of the viewport). The process doing the drawing will block all others and your system will come to a halt - no moving cursors, no task manager, no nothing.
Because SharpMap is released under the LGPL, I will post the .diff patches as soon as the major work is finished.