If you want interactive and multi-touch gesture recognition (to do pan & zoom, and drill-downs, etc.) well, then I guess the answer is probably yes.Ģ) HTML: Not really - only to the extent you want to change the layout of the data table. At least not in a major way for display purposes. Here’s why:ġ) JavaScript: There’s no explicit need to edit any JavaScript. It certainly helps - but I don’t think not being a wizard in web tech is a serious liability, either. Some responses from my first iPad charting demo file wondered whether one must know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to use this charting method. So does a person need to know these web technologies to do iPad charting? Jump in now, using CSS3 and JavaScript, as demonstrated here.Ĭhoice of download type: zipped, as usual and UNzipped, for easy loading directly to your iPad. It is uncertain how soon HTML5 will be fully ratified, though, so you won’t want to wait.

Luckily, the potential of HTML5 for charting is huge, and the spec that affects charting functions (via the canvas tag) is fairly stable. The Google Charts API is popular, but for that you must be online. However, with FileMaker Go for iPad and Phone (separate apps) built-in charting is not supported and Apple’s iOS doesn’t run Adobe Flash. Charts suddenly became much easier to implement in FileMaker Pro! The web viewer has proven especially useful for displaying Flash-generated charts from FusionCharts, Maani, An圜hart, and others.įileMaker Pro v11 introduced a built-in chart layout object with 5 basic chart types. Web technologies have added functionality to FileMaker solutions since the Web Viewer layout object was introduced in version 8.5.

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