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FgCharting est un plug in jQuery qui permet de créer des diagrammes depuis des données contenues dans des tableaux HTML standards (”table”, “/table”). FgCharting, pour afficher le diagramme, s’appuie sur le tag “canvas” (voir article - Utililser le tag “canvas” avec Internet Explorer).

Data visualization in HTML has long been tricky to achieve. Past solutions have involved non-standard plugins, proprietary behavior, and static images. But this has changed with the recent growth in support for the new HTML Canvas element, which provides a native drawing API that can be addressed with simple Javascript. This article is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.