Wouldn't it be nice if Sharepoint (or any
Microsoft product for that matter) could display the types of charts, diagrams
and data visualisations that we've come to expect as we enter the electronic
age. For those of you who recognise the inherent evil of pie charts, let me show
some of my experiments using the
Protovis graphics library inside Sharepoint pages.
PLEASE NOTE: These demos will only work in a browser that supports Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), which means Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (not IE6, IE7, or IE8), or Firefox.
IE9 Quirks Mode. The Sharepoint 2010 Master Page puts IE9 into IE8 Quirks mode by default (whichs disables SVG graphics amongst other things). You can 'fix' this by changing the v4.master Master Page (using Sharepoint Designer or similar): Find the line that says <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"/>, and change the 8 into a 9.
Source code for these demos -> http://lbrc.org/docs