From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 01:39:35 MST
--> Aaron McBride
>
> At 09:29 PM 11/13/2002 -0800, Reason wrote:
>
> >Unless some people have written good stuff in the past few
> years, building
> >custom graphs on the fly is a horribly expensive development project (in
> >comparison to the rest of it), just FYI.
>
> Graphs could make the site look a little too techie and scare people
> away. Especially if they are used for navigation.
It can be pulled off if done correctly; but you're right in that that's not
exactly easy UI design. My graph background is stock market stuff (these
things --
http://host.wallstreetcity.com/wsc2/Chart.html?Symbol=.DJI&Timespan=260
are autogenerated on the fly byte by byte and pumped into the output stream
for each request, using a Forth backend. Scary. Play around with the check
boxes and you'll see what I mean. I hope to never see code the like of this
again, frankly).
I think that Ben is right on the impact of the graphs, however -- words
really don't do to convey the impression to the uninitiated.
Reason
http://www.exratio.com/
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