[Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2012] Metrics

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Terri Oda writes:

 > So... If AJAX is the fastest way to get some initial prototypes going, 
 > that's a good place to start.

As the author of the original suggestion about AJAXing the charts, I
don't actually think it is the easiest way.  I think it's easier to
just generate a fixed-size chart and slam it in as an <IMG>, and
generally good enough for the purpose.

The point of the suggestion was the coolness (IMHO) and robustness (to
window resizes and the like) of charts that expand to fit the width of
the window by adding data for more items (users, Months, whatever),
*without* asking the user to fill in a form to say how wide, just
resize the browser window.

It should be possible to do this with CSS or similar, but then you'd
need to generate a chart as wide as you think anyone could want and
serve that to everybody.

If you and George disagree with me on the coolness factor, great!
I'll be looking forward to some beautiful thigns I didn't imagine!