standalone bl.ock for vega not working

[Enrico Spinielli]

Hi all,

I have few bl.ocks containing Vega (2.0) examples.

These all display correctly in the <iframe>'d mode but do not work when I click the 'Open in a new window.' link.

For example for this example when opened in its own window, the javascript console shows the following:

 (vega.min.js:3) Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /[ªµºÀ-ÖØ-öø-Ë Ë†-Ë <and on on on ...>

(bl.ocks.org/:13)Uncaught ReferenceError: vg is not defined

Anybody experienced the same issue?

Bye and thanks for any feedbacks

Enrico

[Enrico Spinielli]

I forgot to say that Vega version is 2.0.0 and d3 is 3.5.6

The problem is that in that standalone version Vega fails to load: vg is not available so I had to search for 'version' in the ega.min.js to find the version out while I could execute d3.version to print d3's version.

[Enrico Spinielli]

I discovered that locally serving with

http-server -p 8000

results in no problems, while using 

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

will result in the error as reported in my initial email.

For the sake of having a working standalone bl.ock I reverted to use d3 and vega libraries as served from

the vega site:

    <script src="http://vega.github.io/vega-editor/vendor/d3.min.js"></script>

    <script src="http://vega.github.io/vega-editor/vendor/vega.min.js"></script>

This is weird ...

[Robert Feldt]

Did anyone else run into this and maybe have found a solution? I have the same problem with latest vega and d3 and running both a ruby-based or a python-based web server. When I revert to linking directly to the vega and d3 files on the vega web site everything works but with local copies I get the same uncaught exception. Maybe it has to do with serving the files and encoding (UTF or not)?

Any help appreciated,

Robert Feldt

[Blake Haugen]

I ran into this problem when using the python http.server. I am not certain but I believe the problem has to do with the encoding of the javascript files. I changed my html to explicitly load the script as UTF-8 and it seems to be working for me. 

    <script src="js/d3.min.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>

Hopefully this helps the next person with this problem.

-Blake