Charts And Graphs: Modern Solutions - Smashing Magazine

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Bellygraph - Have a laugh while you graph Home Hello, this is the Open Flash Chart project. Note: "Open Flash Chart 2" is LGPL. OK, Open Flash Chart 1.x was great and it works like a dream. But I made some little mistakes which over time grew and anyoyed me and made the source code weird. While I was hacking away at the source code I moved it all to Actionscript 3, and used Adobe Flex to compile it. Just because there is a new version doesn't make V 1.x obsolete. Why is V2 better? If you like Open Flash Chart and want to see it continue, please help Donate some money :-) Blog about it (promotion takes up about a third of my time) Write a cool library Really. Need help choosing reseller hosting for your charts? Why choose Open Flash Chart? This is a little gentle propaganda for the project. Edge cases such as PC Pro loves open flash chart. Server Side Helper Libraries PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, .NET, Google Web Toolkit and JAVA. Next: Check out the tutorials.