Why convert to HTML?

There seems to be a lot of code that we have created when we converted our dashboard from Simple XML, and it is probably about now when you are asking if it is worth the effort to actually perform this change. Well, there are a few good reasons you would want to move your dashboards to HTML:

  • Customization: Even though Simple XML has come a long way, there are still some things you simply cannot do. Just as we found that we were able to create dashboard quicker and with more features when we moved from using the web interface, the same can be said about moving to HTML. We are now only limited by what we can do with HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
  • Enhancement: We can now utilize both custom and well-known CSS and JavaScript libraries ...

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