Beginning JavaScript Charts: With jqPlot, d3, and Highcharts

CHAPTER 18

Moving from jqPlot to Highcharts

Following in the footsteps of the jqPlot framework, a new JavaScript library is catching up, called Highcharts. This is a commercial product and was completed in late 2009 by the Norwegian company Highsoft Solutions AS. As this book is being written, this new library is at version 3.0.1 and is increasingly being offered in the market as a new solution for the professional representation of charts.

Since we have been referring in many ways to the syntax and structure of jqPlot, it seemed appropriate to add the Highcharts library to the end of this first part of the book, dedicating a separate chapter ...