From: Jeff Pritchard Date: 2006-06-06T10:14:49+09:00 Subject: Re: This is brain dead, but is it stupid? Thanks Kate, You make a good point. Right now I'm working towards a SimpleGraphs v0.001 that satisfies my needs for the app that brought it into being. Perhaps 0.002 will include horizontal graphs as well. Still hoping for info on error reporting in an 'erb' library. best, jp kate rhodes wrote: > On 6/2/06, Jeff Pritchard wrote: >> >> I'm finding it a bit surprising that anybody is interested in horizontal >> bar graphs. I've always found them a bit off-putting. Like I'm >> supposed to lay my head on the table while I look at them. Will it be >> unforgivably incomplete without support for horizontal bars? > > Simple example of why horizontal graphs are important: > Imaging you have 100+ records each of which gets a bar. > With a vertical bar graph you run off the side of page (even without > labels). How are you supposed to do it with a label on each bar? > Horizontal graph allows you to put label + bar on one line, and while > the full graph may scroll off bottom of page people don't mind because > we're used to things going below the fold. Horizontal graphs also > allow you to have more words in the label of each bar because they > don't affect the length of the graph. > > > - kate = masukomi -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.