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diff --git a/static/js/flot/FAQ.md b/static/js/flot/FAQ.md deleted file mode 100755 index 9131e04..0000000 --- a/static/js/flot/FAQ.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,75 +0,0 @@ -## Frequently asked questions ## - -#### How much data can Flot cope with? #### - -Flot will happily draw everything you send to it so the answer -depends on the browser. The excanvas emulation used for IE (built with -VML) makes IE by far the slowest browser so be sure to test with that -if IE users are in your target group (for large plots in IE, you can -also check out Flashcanvas which may be faster). - -1000 points is not a problem, but as soon as you start having more -points than the pixel width, you should probably start thinking about -downsampling/aggregation as this is near the resolution limit of the -chart anyway. If you downsample server-side, you also save bandwidth. - - -#### Flot isn't working when I'm using JSON data as source! #### - -Actually, Flot loves JSON data, you just got the format wrong. -Double check that you're not inputting strings instead of numbers, -like [["0", "-2.13"], ["5", "4.3"]]. This is most common mistake, and -the error might not show up immediately because Javascript can do some -conversion automatically. - - -#### Can I export the graph? #### - -You can grab the image rendered by the canvas element used by Flot -as a PNG or JPEG (remember to set a background). Note that it won't -include anything not drawn in the canvas (such as the legend). And it -doesn't work with excanvas which uses VML, but you could try -Flashcanvas. - - -#### The bars are all tiny in time mode? #### - -It's not really possible to determine the bar width automatically. -So you have to set the width with the barWidth option which is NOT in -pixels, but in the units of the x axis (or the y axis for horizontal -bars). For time mode that's milliseconds so the default value of 1 -makes the bars 1 millisecond wide. - - -#### Can I use Flot with libraries like Mootools or Prototype? #### - -Yes, Flot supports it out of the box and it's easy! Just use jQuery -instead of $, e.g. call jQuery.plot instead of $.plot and use -jQuery(something) instead of $(something). As a convenience, you can -put in a DOM element for the graph placeholder where the examples and -the API documentation are using jQuery objects. - -Depending on how you include jQuery, you may have to add one line of -code to prevent jQuery from overwriting functions from the other -libraries, see the documentation in jQuery ("Using jQuery with other -libraries") for details. - - -#### Flot doesn't work with [insert name of Javascript UI framework]! #### - -Flot is using standard HTML to make charts. If this is not working, -it's probably because the framework you're using is doing something -weird with the DOM or with the CSS that is interfering with Flot. - -A common problem is that there's display:none on a container until the -user does something. Many tab widgets work this way, and there's -nothing wrong with it - you just can't call Flot inside a display:none -container as explained in the README so you need to hold off the Flot -call until the container is actually displayed (or use -visibility:hidden instead of display:none or move the container -off-screen). - -If you find there's a specific thing we can do to Flot to help, feel -free to submit a bug report. Otherwise, you're welcome to ask for help -on the forum/mailing list, but please don't submit a bug report to -Flot. |