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Subject: Re: best way to catch browsers without SVG?
From: Nelson Minar <nel...@monkey.org>
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:12 PM, eudaimos <j...@hwgray.com> wrote:

> This is cool, but I think it would be even better assuming you're using
> Node.js to produce the same d3 visualization without transitions and then
> send it as an image to the browser via the btoa base64 encoding.


Well sure, but that's a lot of work. See discussions in this group before
about server side rendering. Node's not enough, you need an SVG
implementation rendering to pixels. And of course you won't have any
interactive functions displaying a static image.

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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:12 PM, eudaimos <span =
dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:j...@hwgray.com">j...@hwgray.com</a>&gt;<=
/span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8=
ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This is cool, but I think it would be even better assuming you&#39;re using=
 Node.js to produce the same d3 visualization without transitions and then =
send it as an image to the browser via the btoa base64 encoding.</blockquot=
e>
<div><br></div><div>Well sure, but that&#39;s a lot of work. See discussion=
s in this group before about server side rendering. Node&#39;s not enough, =
you need an SVG implementation rendering to pixels. And of course you won&#=
39;t have any interactive functions displaying a static image.</div>
<div><br></div></div><br>

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