[Koha-devel] Charting/Analysis for Koha

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi
<tomascohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Colin Campbell
> <colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
>> On 19/01/11 12:50, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM, savitra sirohi
>>> <savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz> wrote:
>>>> Folks, I am looking for suggestions on the best long term,
>>>> architectural solution to add charting for Koha reports.
>>>>
>>>> Do we use:
>>>> - Google visualization API
>>>> - Perl module Chart
>>>> - Perl module GD
>>>
>>> GD is already a Koha dependency, so going with that would avoid adding
>>> another dependency.
>>>
>> And I've seen it used to produce some nice looking reports. Definitely
>> worth looking at.
>
> I'ts server-side. I'd prefer sending the client all the data inside a
> json and a javacsript library to render everything ono the client
> side.

So what are the pros/cons for server-side/client-side processing of charts?

Kind Regards,
Chris