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Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript that takes a graphical approach to data visualization by allowing the user to specify how the data should be encoded in the marks representing it on the screen. The project is led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Protovis uses SVG image for rendering, allowing visualizations to be seamlessly inserted into pages.

Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript that takes a graphical approach to data visualization by allowing the user to specify how the data should be encoded in the marks representing it on the screen. The project is led by Mike Bostock and Jeff Heer of the Stanford Visualization Group, with help from Vadim Ogievetsky. Protovis uses SVG image for rendering, allowing visualizations to be seamlessly inserted into pages. Protovis is no longer under development, as of June 28, 2011. The creators recommend using D3.js instead.

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Protovis vs D3.js

TLDR: Does anyone have experience of both protovis & D3.js to illuminate the differences between the two? I've been playing with protovis for the last 2 weeks and it's been great so far. Except now I seem to have hit a bit of a brick wall with…
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Trigger resize event on print

I have a div in which I create a chart using protovis. The div has width: 100% and height: 100% and the code to create the chart uses $('#chart').width() and $('#chart').height() to get the size of the div at render time and fill the page with the…
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D3.js tipsy tooltips

Is D3.js able to supprt tipsy tooltip? Can someone show me an example if possible. thanks.
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Why does Firefox not pass all mouse wheel events to my javascript application?

I'm using the protovis library (http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/) to draw a graph. I uploaded the code I'm using in case someone wants to take a look at it: http://jsfiddle.net/zobel/brEAD/ Here is my problem: Under Firefox, when I use the…
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Inline SVG in Firefox

I'm a bit stumped with this one. I'm rendering SVG visualizations using Protovis, a JS library, and it works perfectly well in Chrome as well as Firefox. I save the rendered SVG on my server and try to re-render it in a "gallery" view using a PHP…
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