My dilemma of the week is what technology to utilise for a couple of websites we are building for Channel 4 Television. We have a lot of data we need to display such as comparative bar charts. We would of always done these dynamically with Flash and XML but I’ve gotta little thing going for the pure simplicity of Google Chart API.
Flash gives me cute animation, fonts and the ability to download a graphic but just doesn’t print out from a browser page. Whereas the Javascript gives me better accessibility, is printable from the browser’s print option and works on my bloody iPhone!
Yes, I know there are loads of hardcore Javascripts out there that can do a whole lot more but for we don’t need anything too complex. We are going to do some trials next week on the exporting the SWFs as a PDF/JPG with some extra data as this is kind of important for the client so they can get a snapshot of the graph to be used externally.
